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Mark Pocan: “It wants to cut federal loan programs that help students…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan town hall in Green Bay

Published | Video Starts at 47:24

I've spent twelve years doing nothing but labor and education and human services in the most recent years under this. It is ridiculous to abolish the Department of Education, but this is how extreme the dogma is in Project 2025. It wants to cut federal loan programs that help students afford higher education. Look, I got to go to college because I came from a lower middle class family. I had Pell grants and loans, and I paid back my loans, but without those, I wouldn't have been able to. (47:24–47:29)

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