They told her to make the payments. She did. For fifteen goddamn years.
Arianne Lovelace lives in Midlothian, Texas. She works at TriWest Healthcare Alliance. She has four kids. She has been paying her student loans since before her youngest was born, and her balance has climbed to $124,000 — more than she originally borrowed — because the interest kept running while she made the payments they told her to make.
Then Trump’s Education Department killed the only plan that made her payment something a working mother could carry. Her monthly bill went from about $400 to nearly $1,400. Tripled. Overnight, basically. Because a coalition of Republican state attorneys general decided the affordable option was ‘unlawful,’ and a federal appeals court agreed, and now the bill lands on her kitchen table.
She gets to tell her four-year-old daughter: pick one activity, not three. She gets to stop putting money away for her kids’ college. She gets to tell her husband the vacation is off this year. That is the family-values Republican Party in 2026. The ‘operational support’ Under Secretary Nicholas Kent bragged about to the Wall Street Journal is a 90-day clock to a tripled bill.
Nearly a million borrowers have been pushed out of SAVE. Half of them are in the IBR plan, where payments still eat 10 or 15 percent of what they earn. Some are refinancing into private loans because the federal system is such a goddamn mess. Danielle Kaller in Florida runs borrower groups. She says they are in ‘absolute panic.’
This is what Trump and the donor-owned Republican Party did to working families. They killed the affordable plan, kept the interest compounding, handed the working mother the bigger bill, and called it ‘operational support.’ Family values, my ass. A value you refuse to fund is a slogan in a tie.
Take the flag pin off before you rob the family, you sanctimonious fucking frauds.
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