I am speechless in my anger. Each of these degrees are primarily held by women. Under the Big Beautiful Bill, the Republicans have made it to where beginning in 2028, all student loans are capped for professional, medical, undergraduate, and law degrees. $100,000 for professional degrees and $200,000 for medical and law degrees. NEITHER OF WHICH IS ENOUGH. But now, Linda McMahon, who has no experience with education, is acting on the Project 2025 plan to remove women from the workforce. By eliminating the classification of professional degree for these, you CANNOT QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL AID FOR THEM.
Nurses
Epidemiologists
Teachers
Social workers
Engineers
All wiped out in a generation. This will decimate the country. This is the end of our healthcare system. We are already in a 50 year shortage on doctors and nurses. The average PCP and OBGYN are 51 and 54 respectively.
Trump supporters can never ben forgiven for this.
Can someone explain how a theologian is considered more “professional” than a nurse practitioner?
As part of the “Big Beautiful Bill” the Department of Education just proposed a reclassification of a “professional degree,” and it means fewer students will qualify for the higher loan limits they need for grad school. Programs being excluded include many fields dominated by women like healthcare, counseling, and social work. This isn’t a coincidence. This is a way to quietly push women out of professional careers.
Limiting who can pursue advanced degrees in critical professions will only deepen the workforce shortages we’re already facing.
“The Department of Education said what now? Nursing is ‘no longer a professional degree’? Tell that to the nurses who kept this country alive while half of Washington was playing political cosplay. This is what happens when extremists who can’t tell a stethoscope from a selfie ring light start rewriting policy: they go after nurses, teachers, and every working American who actually makes society function. If you think gutting the professional status of NURSING one of the most essential, demanding, life-saving professions in existence is going to fly, think again. Trumpworld keeps inventing culture wars. Democrats keep trying to keep people alive. https://t.co/e0p1MS5G3K
@AdamParkhomenko This is the way the DOE can restrict and cap access to federal student loans for graduate nursing students
@BernieSanders - you are a minority member on the education subcommittee, something needs to be done to stop this