I like this.

Well, I can say this right here, dude.

I mean, and that's the funny part about it.

See, that's what I'm talking about right there.

I can't say everything right there.

Because, like, here's the thing.

I pull from different sources all the time.

know

And so to Nathan's specific question, did you

get it? So to Nathan's specific question, there have actually been a lot of questions that not just borrowers have, but I have, frankly, around a program known as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Buyback Program.

It will allow some borrowers to essentially, in a lump sum, pay off whatever outstanding term they might have.

Let's say they were at 110 payments, right? And they just want to fast track themselves to loan forgiveness.

The buyback program technically would allow them to make up those payments they hadn't made yet or missed as long as they had already put in their 10 years of service.

So I guess my first recommendation is, to borrowers who may be in this situation, is to go online, go to Federal Student Aid, and look up the PSLF buyback program.

I know that there's, or at least there was the last time I checked, there was a pretty big backlog.

These categories existed previously, but why make the exception for those? Do they just want – is this like a culture war thing where the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress don't want people getting sociology degrees and American history PhDs and things like that?

Corey, can you just unpack some of it for us?

Uh, let me just focus in on this talking point that has been around for decades among Republicans, that, that education really does belong to the states.

The word education doesn't appear in the Constitution, and the Department of Education is not actually that old.

It was created in 1979.

Um, I th- I think the thing to keep in mind, though, is that the Education Department does not have that much power when it comes to state and local education decisions.

You know, state and local funding for schools, only about 10% on average comes from the federal government.

Really, the rest comes from states and local property taxes.

Mm-hmm.