{"id":62117,"date":"2025-12-18T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62117"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:05","slug":"should-we-forgive-the-student-loans-of-people-who-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62117","title":{"rendered":"Should We Forgive The Student Loans Of People Who Don’t Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about another scandal in Minnesota involving government funds.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the U.S. and the site of numerous fraud investigations, fraudsters received $12.5 million in student loan and education grant money, according to a letter Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The letter<\/a> calls on Walz to resign, and states that a new fraud prevention system at the department has found over $1 billion in \u201cattempted financial aid theft,\u201d including by international fraud rings and artificial intelligence (AI) bots.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[Y]our careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country,\u201d McMahon wrote. \u201cAs President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a \u2018fraudulent hub of money laundering activity.’\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is disturbing to me that international bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of accountability in spending American taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In June, the Department of Education announced a \u201cnationwide effort to eliminate identity theft and fraud in the federal student aid programs for the fall 2025 semester,\u201d and<\/a> a requirement for institutions of higher education to verify \u201ccertain first-time applicants who are enrolled in the summer term,\u201d as an immediate effort to combat fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFederal Student Aid (FSA) data indicates that the rate of fraud through stolen identities, particularly involving technologically advanced fraud rings, has reached a level that imperils the federal student assistance programs,\u201d the department stated at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another obvious safeguard<\/a>, also announced by the Education Department in June, required first-time student aid applicants<\/a> to \u201cpresent, either in person or on a live video conference, an unexpired, valid, government-issued photo identification to an institutionally authorized individual and the institution must preserve a copy of this documentation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the department has noted<\/a>, the Biden administration removed verification capabilities for student loans and \u201cdiverted resources from fraud prevention toward its illegal loan forgiveness efforts,\u201d opening the door for massive fraud<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it is time to turn the student loan program back to the states and back to private banks. I suspect that will end a lot of the fraud. Private business will always do a better job than the government. Note that it is the people from private industry put in place by President Trump that are finding the fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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