Trump keeps $1.2 trillion of student-loan debt on ice
The measure would postpone both repayments and the accumulation of interest through year-end on loans held by the federal government
President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a student-loan freeze will take away a financial risk for tens of millions of U.S. households that now won’t have to resume paying back about $1.2 trillion of debt until at least 2021.The measure, one of four executive actions Trump took Saturday, ke
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