WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following press release:
According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Trump administration's efforts to fire hundreds of workers at the Department of Education have undermined the accuracy of student loan borrower records and have failed to hold servicers accountable for providing high-quality customer service to America's 43 million student loan borrowers.
Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, and released today by the GAO, the report finds that Trump's layof...