New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- US President Donald Trump's administration is planning to exclude some nonprofits from a popular student loan forgiveness program to prevent direct or indirect facilitation of "illegal activity". Organizations that support terrorism, illegal immigration, and transgender issues will cease to benefit from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the US Education Department announced.

The US Education Department declared that the Trump administration has decided to cancel the PSLF program for "organizations that engage in unlawful activities" like "supporting terrorism and aiding and abetting illegal immigration".

As per a press release by the federal agency, the move will "restore the taxpayer-funded PSLF ...