Trump vetoes bipartisan measure against DeVos' loan rules
Source: Associated Press
Collin Binkley, Ap Education Writer
Updated 6:59 pm CDT, Friday, May 29, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday vetoed a measure that would have overturned a policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued in 2019 making it harder for students to get their loans erased after being misled by for-profit colleges.
The Senate gave final approval to the bipartisan measure in March, dealing a rare rebuke of DeVos from the Republican-led chamber. But Trump on Friday said DeVos' rules are better than an Obama-era policy that would have been restored if the measure succeeded.
In issuing his veto, Trump said the rules created by former President Barack Obama defined educational fraud so broadly that it threatened to paralyze the nations system of higher education.
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Democrats condemned the move and promised a House vote to override the veto. Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, who led the the bill in the House, said the fight is far from over.
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dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Fucking evil psychopath
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)Would this ruling have affected his payments? How is this not conflict of interest?