Education Secretary Linda McMahon slammed “worthless” college degrees and took aim at former President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness policies in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week as the Trump administration gears up to enforce repayment.

On May 5, the Department of Education will begin moving 1.8 million student borrowers into repayment plans and resume collection efforts that were paused by the Biden administration, including wage garnishments for those who default.

“Why? Not because we want to be unkind to student borrowers,” McMahon insisted in her Monday essay. “Borrowing money and failing to pay it back isn’t a victimless offense. Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others. If borrowers don’t pay their debts to the government, taxpayers do.”

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