Biden-Harris Administration BLUNDER Exposed!

Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) discussed the Department of Education’s delayed release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday, describing it as “another example” of the “Biden-Harris administration’s missteps.”

Houchin emphasized the importance of the FAFSA form, explaining that it helps students and their families determine how much federal student aid they might qualify for when deciding on which college to attend.

According to the New York Times, the Department of Education recently announced that the full FAFSA form would not be available until December 1. In October, it will only be released to a “limited set of students and institutions” to address and resolve any potential issues.

“It is just another example here of the Biden-Harris administration blunders. Every single federal agency that’s responsible for the border, for the FBI, for the Department of Education, inflation, all of these. Every single thing under their watch has been a complete disaster, and this Department of Education FAFSA issue is no different,” Houchin explained. “They’ve had four years. Congress, before I got there, passed the FAFSA Simplification Act four years ago, and they’ve had four years to simplify the form. Last year it was a complete disaster. We still had, in July, students who could not access the form to figure out what aid they might receive for going to college. Instead, the administration has been spending all of their time focused on the illegal student loan bail-out scheme, the transfer of wealth from the middle class to liberal elites. This is just another example of their failures and we’re trying to put forward legislation that will actually hold them accountable.”

In July, Houchin introduced the FAFSA Deadline Act, aimed at creating an earlier application processing timeline for the FAFSA.

“The FAFSA Deadline Act is an attempt to try to put some accountability and some guidance, as well as ask them to testify to Congress about why they aren’t going to meet it. So, there is some transparency for the American people about what’s happening in the Department of Education, so families can plan for their future,” Houchin explained. “Eighteen million families across the country have to use the FAFSA. In some states, like Indiana, it is required by the law. You have to complete the FAFSA, and it has been inaccessible. What the FAFSA is supposed to do, is to let students know how much federal student aid they may qualify for, and that would be – help them determine – where they may be able to afford to go to college. So, if you don’t get a decision from the feds on how much you may qualify for, and again in the last year’s rollout some students got notifications that they, due to incorrect reporting on the DOE side, that they might qualify for more money than they were entitled to, only to find out that that was incorrect information, or on the flip side of that, less money.”

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