Warren tells McMahon Fiting Workers means ‘terrible consequences’ for student financial assistance

Senator Elizabeth Warren urged the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to return the former Department of Education who is very important for the process of assistance from federal students or borrowers will suffer “terrible consequences,” according to a letter sent by Warren to McMahon on Wednesday.

“The Department of Education (ED) seems to leave millions of parents, students, and borrowers who rely on the Federal Student Assistance System that functions to reduce the cost of education,” Warren and a group of democratic senators wrote in a letter to McMahon.

“Ed must immediately recover all the fired [Federal Student Aid] Employees who are responsible for reviewing complaints of student assistance and holding back from taking any action to prevent complaints submissions, “added the Senators.

The Ministry of Education intends to delete the “Send Complaint” button from the FSA website, according to the letter. Found a senior employee in the department called the step “overall victory” because changes will reduce the volume and number of complaints. But more than 90% of office complaints were submitted online last year.

“ED actions will hurt parents who try to understand how to submit Fafsa correctly so that they are able to send their children to college, veterans whose loan payment status has been processed incorrectly because of their placement, and students whose assistance is detained incorrectly by predatory non-profit schools,” the letter said.

The letter accuses changes in the FSA website – such as moving the complaint function – weakening the capacity of FSA to resolve complaints and place borrowers at the risk of loan fraud. Warren, D-Mass., And the senators demanded answers about the backlog of the agency complaint, why the department fired a civil servant, and how much influence Elon Musk and the Government’s Department of Efficiency on dismissal.

“Donald Trump tells students that if you are cheated by your student loan provider or have problems getting the help you need for college, he does not care,” Warren said in a statement to ABC News. “McMahon Secretary helps Trump to tear the opportunities of children who only want good education, and as a result, real people will be injured. Democrats in the Senate will not roll and surrender to our children -we fight,” added Warren.

This happened when President Donald Trump was expected to sign the executive order to cancel the US Department of Education in the White House on Wednesday, various familiar sources told ABC News. The President’s orders will direct McMahon to take all the steps needed by the law to dissolve the department, according to familiar sources. It takes 60 votes in the senate to dismantle the agent made by the congress.

The Department of Education took the first step to eliminate almost half of the workforce of the agency last week through the prevailing massive reduction, deferred resignation and pension purchases, according to the agency. After a federal judge ordered that former probation employees be restored, dozens be re -employed. A familiar source told ABC News that most of the reduction in strength influenced the office for civil rights and the assistance of federal students. FSA Civil Servants are assigned to help state students achieve higher education, including overseeing $ 1.6 trillion student loan portfolios.

FSA received nearly 300,000 complaints in the 2024 fiscal year, according to the letter. The office has around 1,400 employees before layoffs and hundreds will disappear after cutting last week.

However, the department will continue to manage the legal function that is relied upon by students from the disadvantaged background, including grants, formula funding and loans, McMahon is newly depressed.

“We want to ensure that we look after all the right people, good people, to ensure that the program that faces outside, grants, allocations that come from the congress, all of which are fulfilled and no one will fall through gaps,” he told “Angle Ingraham” at Fox News.

FSA operations have been affected, according to familiar sources. Federal student loan site fell for a while last week. Less than 24 hours after being fired, his employees were called panic to join the problem solving call for hours, according to the source.

Throughout President Joe Biden’s term broad problem With a free application for the help of federal students, or fafsa, forms. During a DPR committee regarding the last spring allocation hearing, former Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the department was trying to improve the launch of a failed form “around time.” The McMahon department is furious -reported a 50% increase in the amount FAFSA APPLICATION Submitted compared to this time last year.

Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders, members of the ranking about the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Senate Committee, including among the 11 MPs who signed the letter. The time limit responded by administration is March 25.

A former FSA lawyer, who conducted supervision and enforcement in the borrower defense unit, said they were heartbroken when they were released from their dream work on Valentine’s Day.

Since the check stopped last month, the former employee said it was difficult to live with unemployment allowances. The former employee described making about one fifth of what they brought before being fired.

However, they said the letter to McMahon gave them new hope.

“If I can get my job back, I will take it in an instant,” the former FSA lawyer told ABC News, adding, “I like the job we do.”