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Today, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) unveiled legislation to boost student success while safeguarding taxpayer money. The legislation saves over $330 billion to help advance President Trump’s agenda to provide tax relief for American families and small businesses, rein in wasteful spending, and reduce the federal budget deficit.

In particular, the Committee’s Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan will focus on reforming postsecondary education so that taxpayers, students, and schools are better served via three main initiatives: strengthening accountability for students and taxpayers, streamlining student loan options, and simplifying student loan repayment.

Committee Chairman Tim Walberg released the following statement upon its release: “For decades Congress has responded to the student loan crisis by throwing more and more taxpayer dollars at the problem—never addressing the root causes of skyrocketing college costs. Colleges have ridden this gravy train of taxpayer dollars without any accountability for the quality of the education they provide or whether students can find jobs when they graduate. This plan brings accountability and holds schools financially responsible for loading students up with debt. The bill also includes other reforms that will lower costs for students and families while ensuring the fiscal sustainability of targeted programs like the Pell Grant. Bottom line, it’s time to fix this broken cycle that is costly to taxpayers and leaves students worse off than if they never went to college.”
 
Legislation Highlights:

• Strengthening accountability for students and taxpayers
• Streamlining student loan options
• Simplifying student loan repayment

The full text is available here.
The markup tomorrow will be streamed here.

Additional markup details are below.
 
What:
Markup of Committee Print to comply with reconciliation directives included in H.Con.Res.14 Section 2001(b)(3); and H. Res. 344, Of inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to transmit respectively, to the House of Representatives certain documents relating to the elimination of the Administration for Community Living
 
When:
10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, April 29, 2025
 
Where:
2175 Rayburn House Office Building
 
Press:
The markup is open to the press and will be live-streamed on the Committee's YouTube page.