[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 12, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 11885-11886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04103]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 47 / Wednesday, March 12, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14235 of March 7, 2025

                
Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. In 2007, the Congress established 
                the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program to 
                encourage Americans to enter the public service sector 
                by promising to forgive their remaining student loans 
                after they completed 10 years of service in those jobs 
                while making 10 years of minimum payments.

                The prior administration abused the PSLF Program 
                through a waiver process, using taxpayer funds to pay 
                off loans for employees still years away from the 
                statutorily required number of payments. Moreover, 
                instead of alleviating worker shortages in necessary 
                occupations, the 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. The 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' federally subsidized wrongdoing.

                As President of the United States, I have a duty to 
                protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution and our 
                national security, which includes ending the 
                subsidization of illegal activities, including illegal 
                immigration, human smuggling, child trafficking, 
                pervasive damage to public property, and disruption of 
                the public order, which threaten the security and 
                stability of the United States. Accordingly, it is the 
                policy of my Administration that individuals employed 
                by organizations whose activities have a substantial 
                illegal purpose shall not be eligible for public 
                service loan forgiveness.

                Sec. 2. Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The 
                Secretary of Education shall propose revisions to 34 
                CFR 685.219, Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, 
                in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury as 
                appropriate, that ensure the definition of ``public 
                service'' excludes organizations that engage in 
                activities that have a substantial illegal purpose, 
                including:

                    (a) aiding or abetting violations of 8 U.S.C. 1325 
                or other Federal immigration laws;
                    (b) supporting terrorism, including by facilitating 
                funding to, or the operations of, cartels designated as 
                Foreign Terrorist Organizations consistent with 8 
                U.S.C. 1189, or by engaging in violence for the purpose 
                of obstructing or influencing Federal Government 
                policy;
                    (c) child abuse, including the chemical and 
                surgical castration or mutilation of children or the 
                trafficking of children to so-called transgender 
                sanctuary States for purposes of emancipation from 
                their lawful parents, in violation of applicable law;
                    (d) engaging in a pattern of aiding and abetting 
                illegal discrimination; or
                    (e) engaging in a pattern of violating State tort 
                laws, including laws against trespassing, disorderly 
                conduct, public nuisance, vandalism, and obstruction of 
                highways.

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                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    March 7, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-04103
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