Trumps Plan, die Studienkredite für Krankenschwestern im Rahmen seiner Reform der Rückzahlungen zu begrenzen, stößt auf parteiübergreifenden Widerstand
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-student-loan-debt-limits-nurses-bipartisan-backlash-repayment-overhaul-2025-12?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-politics-sub-post
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***From Business Insider’s Ayelet Sheffey:***
Opposition toward new student-loan limits in President Donald Trump’s repayment overhaul is mounting.
On Friday, a bipartisan group of over 140 lawmakers sent a letter to Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent urging him to revise the Department of Education’s proposal to place new student-loan limits on professional degree programs.
The department recently concluded its negotiations on the student-loan payment changes that Trump signed into law in his „big beautiful“ spending legislation. The changes included borrowing caps for graduate and professional students: a $100,000 lifetime limit for graduate students, and a $200,000 lifetime limit for professional students.
The crux of the debate centered on which programs qualify as „professional,“ and the department identified 10 programs, including medicine, dentistry, and law, that would meet its new definition. Post-graduate nursing programs are not included within the professional definition, and the lawmakers wrote that the omission could exacerbate the ongoing nursing shortage.
„Classifying these programs as graduate programs would result in these students having to take out additional student loans to cover the remainder of their tuition, which will limit the ability for students to complete their advanced degree,“ the letter said.
The lawmakers used the example of the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist program, which can cost over $200,000. They said that the proposed $100,000 cap is „restricting the pipeline of CRNAs and further limiting an anesthesia workforce that is suffering from shortages across all provider types.“
[Read more about how lawmakers are pushing back against Trump’s student loan changes here.](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-student-loan-debt-limits-nurses-bipartisan-backlash-repayment-overhaul-2025-12?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-politics-sub-comment)
They are trying to kill you ….. if you haven’t figured that out by now you must be dead.
As a nurse I can’t even tell you how incredibly stupid what he’s trying to do is. I retired in 2018 and we were already in a serious shortage then. It has quadrupled since I left due to covid and multiple other issues. Who do they think are going to take care of people in their for-profit hospitals if there’s no nurses? The Healthcare world is already in a world of hurt because of the lack of Nursing care. This will just seal the fact that we’ll kill that many more people
Did a nurse hurt his feelings?
This is going to crush our college town. The university is the largest employer in town, and nursing students make up a third of the town’s residents. Faculty will be fired, and local businesses will close.
He’s such a petty asshole
If the goal was to limit the cost of a nursing degree by limiting the amount you could borrow, it is not bad a bad idea to limit cost, but doing it this way is ham fisted at best, it may or may not reach the desired goal, but it going to take a long time to get there, and in the process it going to make issues like nursing shortages a lot worse.
IMHO this is typical republican bullshit of trying to use market forces to correct problems. Often market forces move slowly, but the negative effects move much quicker.
The fact MAGAts can’t understand this dude is literally trying to destroy America from within is insane.
There’s always plenty of bucks for the politicians, and the oligarchs. The rest of us pay.
He really does want people to die. Fun stuff.
His nurses must be giving him bad news about his dementia
It’s a plan to prevent graduate degrees in general by limiting the amount of student loans. Graduate nursing degrees are part of those that are affected. Many other types of degrees are also subject to the new limits. So, for example, Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists, Nurse Anesthetists, and many others.
„First I’ll make all the doctors want to flee the country… and the scientists… then I’ll make it REALLY hard to become a nurse… That’ll fix things.“
Can’t wait until the natural birth people start wanting natural surgeries…like the old days.
I’m convinced that he is presented with ideas, choices, and then actively chooses the worst possible choice on purpose. Every single decision that trump and this administration makes is the wrong choice. Every single one.
yeah, fuck nurses, everyone hates nurses. those greedy, selfish nurses….
I knew a lot of nurses before 2024 election. They were also against vaccines. I don’t know them anymore.
Pretty on brand for the guy trying to destroy the country. We’re getting the day the idiots voted for!!!
Welcome to Costco… I LOVE YOU!!
Yeah, we fucking need nurses. Not everyone can pay put of pocket for school. Nurses run hospitals.
Hey, you know what the sanest response to this would be? Educate nurses for fucking free.
Entry level Physical Therapist education in California costs between 200-250k at private school. PT was also deleted from professional list.
Typical medical school is more than 200k. Most anti science, anti healthcare administration imaginable.
At least they increased borrowing for Theology school. /s.
Trump must really hate those nurses they had to hire for his dementia, stroke and heart failure care.
What possible reason could there be to go after nurses? There is a shortage right now? WHAT?
I swear the whole of the GOP governance plan is “who can we hurt and how badly?”
Yep, that sure will help with healthcare costs!
This dude truly does not get how we, the real people, are struggling.
Hes 80 and dying, could care less if people behind him are taken care of
Isn’t there a nursing shortage or something ?
Donald Trump is legitimately without exaggeration a fucking dimwit
It’s absolutely moronic. We already have a serious nurse shortage. We should make it easier for people to become nurses, not harder.
Too many women become nurses…. The party of misogyny strikes again
He thinks nursing is a woman’s job, and he hates women. That’s what this is about.
The goal is to make it harder for women to get post secondary education by classifying women-dominated professions as ineligible for loans.
The outcome will be women moving into the male dominated fields that are still eligible.
Because thinking through the consequences of their policies is not something this crowd ever does.
The number of republican nurses still amazes me.