Fixing The Biden DOE’s Legendary List of Abuses
Adam Kissel
March 20, 2025
Nicholas Kent, nominated for Under Secretary of Education, has a significant opportunity to help the Department of Education overcome the lawlessness of the past administration. This is because the undersecretary oversees both the leadership of the Office of Federal Student Aid and the regulations that gatekeep access to student loans, which have suffered many losses in court.
The last administration became notorious for multiple failed attempts to enact extremely expensive student loan “forgiveness” and various attacks on for-profit education. Under President Biden, anti-capitalist bureaucrats sought to knock markets and profits out of education wherever remotely possible.
In particular, the department revived its “gainful employment” (GE) regulations and began zealously enforcing its “borrower defense” (BD) regulations. Together, these rules were intended to knock for-profits out of the field and deter others from ever entering.
