President Donald Trump\u2019s ego is aware of no bounds, and GOP legislators realize it, which is why they\u2019ve <\/span>come up with<\/a> the thought to call a brand new Pell Grant after him.<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Huge, Stunning Invoice\u201d created the Workforce Pell Grant, through which low-income college students can obtain Pell Grants whereas in profession coaching applications for \u201cin-demand business sectors or occupations.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These short-term applications are not more than <\/span>15 weeks<\/a> and purpose to arrange folks for high-skill, high-wage jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a bipartisan push for this new grant, which shall be a fantastic funding supply for some group faculty applications. However there\u2019s a authentic concern that, as an alternative, will probably be used to get college students into for-profit, slapdash applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There are plenty of \u201ccoding boot camps\u201d and the like which have scammed college students. In 2021, <\/span>three students sued<\/a> Lambda Faculty, alleging misleading advertising practices. Lambda later rebranded as BloomTech. In 2024, when there was nonetheless a functioning Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau, it <\/span>took action<\/a> in opposition to BloomTech for mendacity to college students about loans and placement charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Equally, in 2022, Washington State <\/span>sued Prehired LLC<\/a>, which charged college students $30,000 for a web-based course and assured a job provide of at the very least $60,000 \u201cfrom a tech firm YOU select.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After all, that proved to be false, after which Prehired used aggressive assortment methods to squeeze out cash from the scholars it duped.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s actually too dangerous that Trump College is <\/span>no longer<\/a> a going concern, because it\u2019s simply the type of entity to face up one in all these grifty applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The introduction of the Home <\/span>appropriation bill<\/a> suggests naming these \u201cTrump Grants,\u201d which triggered a <\/span>\u201chell no\u201d letter<\/a> from the Rhode Island delegation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The letter identified that renaming these grants would erase the legacy of a real champion of schooling and substitute it with the identify of the man who has vowed to dismantle the Division of Schooling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Associated |\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Trump’s push for ‘patriotic education’ is predictably corrupt and dumb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Whereas the \u201cOne Huge, Stunning Invoice\u201d saved Pell Grant funding regular, it <\/span>pro-rated<\/a> Pell Grants for college kids who’re enrolled half time, locking lower-income college students out of colleges with increased tuition. The invoice additionally lowered lifetime mortgage limits for graduate college students and eradicated PLUS loans, on which about 40% of doctoral college students have relied.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Equally, Trump is <\/span>destroying<\/a> the Public Service Mortgage Forgiveness program, which made it doable for folks to decide on lower-paying public service roles with out being fully crushed by their debt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Trump administration can also be pushing a brand new rule that <\/span>would deny<\/a> mortgage forgiveness to individuals who work for any group it says has a \u201csubstantial unlawful objective.\u201d After all, based on Trump, organizations that defend immigrants or work with transgender youth have a \u201csubstantial unlawful objective.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has additionally <\/span>resumed collections<\/a> on defaulted pupil loans, at the same time as he trashes the economic system.<\/span><\/p>\n The transfer to call these \u201cTrump Grants\u201d is rather like the \u201c<\/span>Trump Account<\/a>\u201d and his <\/span>Trump Card<\/a>, which permits folks to grow to be residents for $5 million. There\u2019s additionally <\/span>the proposal<\/a> to place Trump\u2019s face on the $100 invoice, knocking off Ben Franklin, and so as to add him to Mount Rushmore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And, in fact, there\u2019s <\/span>the proposal<\/a> to rename Nashville Worldwide Airport to \u201cTrump Worldwide Airport.\u201d One of many GOP legislators pushing that, state Rep. Todd Warner, <\/span>says he wants<\/a> to see an airport named after Trump in each state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One other would slap his identify on Washington Dulles as a result of, <\/span>according to<\/a> GOP Rep. Addison McDowell, \u201cWe have now entered the golden age of America largely because of President Trump\u2019s management.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Uh-huh, positive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And if GOP Rep. Greg Steube of Florida had his manner, all U.S. coastal waters <\/span>would be renamed<\/a> the \u201cDonald John Trump Unique Financial Zone of the US,\u201d and Washington, D.C.,\u2019s Metrorail <\/span>would be called<\/a> the \u201cTrump Practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n GOP legislators know that the important thing to Trump\u2019s coronary heart\u2014or no matter it’s that Trump has within the place of 1\u2014is to repeatedly and obsequiously reward him. And what higher manner to try this than slapping his identify on every thing?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After all, the place the GOP thinks that the Trump model represents some form of high quality, the remainder of the nation is aware of that each one it represents is grift and disdain. They’ll rename issues all they need, but it surely received\u2019t change the truth that every thing Trump touches is a catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Donald](\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1440181\/large\/AP779051843099.jpg?1749080238\" "\\"Donald")
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