APNewsBreak: Nation's top student loan official resigns

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Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — The top government official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned Monday, citing what he says is the White House’s open hostility toward protecting nation’s millions of student loan borrowers.

Seth Frotman will be stepping down from his position as student loan ombudsman at the end of the week, according to his resignation letter which was obtained by The Associated Press. He held that position since 2016.

Frotman is the latest high-level departure from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget director who has been also acting director of the bureau, took over in late November.

Under Mulvaney, the bureau has scaled back its enforcement work and has proposed revising or rescinding all of the rules and regulations it put into place under the Obama administration. Mulvaney downgraded the mission of Frotman’s student loan office and moved it the umbrella of consumer education instead of enforcement.

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[SHRED]

1. Resign or stay and fight?

I guess it's a tough decision.

[winetourdriver01]

4. Tough Decision

And remember, anyone involved with this mal-administration will carry the stink for the rest of their professional lives....

[Afromania]

5. yea, I don't get that either.

I don't like what you're doing so I'll quit. That's what they want you to do so they can put a yes person in there to do exactly what it is you don't like. If you want to lose a country to thieves and scumbags - that's how you lose a country to thieves and scumbags.

[2naSalit]

11. Exactly and

they will make every day that you show up to work an everlasting fucking hell until you decide it isn't worth the heart attack. Had that happen in the NPS... it really sucks but out of self preservation, it becomes necessary.

[Afromania]

16. Its going to take forever to fix this mess when trump is gone.

[mtngirl47]

22. It will take work---but we have dedicated, experienced and

knowledgeable people who will come back to the government to help get the departments back in working order.

When Y2K was a huge worry for all government computers---each department and each military branch called up all the retired programmers and analysts to get it fixed.

My dad was an old programmer (25 year Air Force + 20 year Federal Service) that was called back---and he went because of his dedication to the country.

[Marcuse]

20. Experts at State and other departments have been marginalized or assigned to process FOIA requests.

http://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/no-reality-show-federal-employees-reassigned-politically-charged-trump-era

“I’m making approximately $160,000 a year, with nobody to supervise, with no clear job duties or responsibilities,” said Allen, who grew up in a Western family with a working ranch. “That doesn’t feel like a good use of taxpayer dollars.”

“What’s happening,” he said, “is pure ideologues with no expertise or experience are being put in significant senior positions in the Bureau of Land Management, in the National Parks, in Fish and Wildlife or in the Forest Service.”

“When you’re needing desperately expertise with wildland fires or water management in the Bureau of Reclamation,” he said, “you’re getting people who, quite frankly, don’t know their head from a hole in the ground — and yet they’re earning $110,000 or $120,000 salaries because they are loyal to the Trump administration.”

[2naSalit]

21. As we are seeing in the resignation of

the Superintendent of YNP... https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617936487/yellowstone-national-park-superintendent-i-m-no-longer-wanted. I worked with and for this guy, he's one of the best and he's being thrown out for not bending over at the behest of that wanker Zinke.

[LisaM]

14. He may also be more free to talk about it from the outside.

Who knows what restrictions they have under Mulvaney? Maybe he feels he can do more good exposing what's going on than basically having to go along with the program? (Maybe I'm being Pollyanna, but that does seem as if it could be one explanation).

[Afromania]

15. maybe so

[2naSalit]

19. That's what I'm hoping for...

That all those true public servants come forth and tell their stories.

[SHRED]

18. I took my employer to Federal Court

A public sector job.

I prevailed in a case where they violated my Constitutional rights. 1st, 5th, and 14th Amendments.

Ended up retiring there nearly 20 years after.

I went through hell.
I have little respect for quitters.

[GetRidOfThem]

10. This is an interesting question...

...My wife works for the EPA. Her decision has been to keep on fighting. But she is fortunate, what she does falls mostly under positive radar. However, in the past she was involved with environmental enforcement, and that area she could not be in today given the circumstances... (We are both very political Dems)

[Fred Sanders]

17. Enforcement of regulations of all kinds measures by fines collected down 90%.

The civil service should strike en masse...they are under fascist blitzkrieg.

AP says "scaled back"... fuck off and tell the whole truth...do a fucking Google! Truth is truth!

[exboyfil]

2. I had to think the name reminded me of

Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Wow. Of course, Don the Con's supporters either don't go to college or

are paying for it out of trusts.

[Doodley]

6. Every department has leadership who want to destroy it from within.

[2naSalit]

12. Some were planted

by W or are minions of the russian coup who are there to destroy the country from within, KKKbanaon said so right after they started installing them.

[Chakaconcarne]

7. That is no bueno

[Achilleaze]

8. republican "open hostility" toward students, embrace of BANKS (R)

repube skuzzballs.

republicans didn't need the kremlin's advice to tighten their death grip on the wallets of America's students.

[kimbutgar]

9. His supporters don't care and are probably cheering that students can be fleeced by similar

Orange maggot universities. Plus they think college is a waste of time and money.

[2naSalit]

13. In their worm-infested minds

higher education is likened to breeding Bolsheviks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. College students are there to make money off of - Donald J Trump