Consumer Confidential: GOP lets down student borrowers
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Oct 26, 2017
3 minutes
Proving that we do indeed live in interesting times, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee has thanked the Trump administration for exposing people to greater risk from student loans.
I'm not making this up.
The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos the other day praising her for cutting ties with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency charged with safeguarding people from abusive and illegal lending practices.
Hensarling, who has led Congress' efforts to cripple
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