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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 07: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order in the Oval … [+]<\/span> Office at the White House on March 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed an executive order limiting student loan forgiveness under the PSLF program.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hundreds of thousands of federal student loan borrowers may be impacted by President Donald Trump\u2019s latest student loan forgiveness action, imperiling a popular program that, until fairly recently, had enjoyed bipartisan support.<\/p>\n

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, often referred to as PSLF, provides a pathway to loan forgiveness for borrowers who commit to careers in the nonprofit or public sectors. Borrowers can qualify for complete federal student loan forgiveness after making 120 qualifying payments (the equivalent of 10 years) on eligible loans under a covered repayment plan while working full-time for certain organizations engaged in public service work. At least three million teachers, nurses, public interest attorneys, military servicemembers, and first responders are on track for loan forgiveness under the program, according to the Education Data Initiative. And following a series of waivers and improvements enacted by the Biden administration, more than a million borrowers have had their student loans discharged through PSLF.<\/p>\n

But last week, Trump issued an executive order that threatens to severely undermine the PSLF program and cut off student loan forgiveness on a broad scale. Whether the order will actually get implemented, however, is far from clear. Here\u2019s what borrowers on track for student loan forgiveness under the program need to know.<\/p>\n

What Trump\u2019s Order Says About Student Loan Forgiveness Under PSLF<\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a>, titled \u201cRestoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness,\u201d targets student loan forgiveness under PSLF based on an organization\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PSLF Program has misdirected tax dollars into activist organizations that not only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values, sometimes through criminal means,\u201d reads the order. \u201cThe PSLF Program also creates perverse incentives that can increase the cost of tuition, can load students in low-need majors with unsustainable debt, and may push students into organizations that hide under the umbrella of a non-profit designation and degrade our national interest, thus requiring additional Federal funding to correct the negative societal effects caused by these organizations\u2019 federally subsidized wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump seeks to limit PSLF eligibility for organizations the administration determines are engaged in \u201cillegal activities,\u201d and decrees that \u201cindividuals employed by organizations whose activities have a substantial illegal purpose shall not be eligible for public service loan forgiveness.\u201d The order goes on to identify several categories of activities that the administration believes should result in an organization being excluded from qualifying PSLF employment and, thus, from student loan forgiveness eligibility. These categories of activities include:<\/p>\n