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Mark Huelsman

@markhuelsman.bsky.social

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Higher ed, inequality, debt, mobility, wealth, sports, kittens, anything else therein.

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Protect Borrowers @protectborrowers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Americans are going into debt just to eat... and Congress is making it worse, instead of better. New Substack from @markhuelsman.bsky.social on In Debt: indebt.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-…

Image of the cover of the Substack post "Let Them Eat Credit" "As grocery prices skyrocket, Americans are going into debt just to eat, and Congress is making it worse." by Mark Huelsman on Protect Borrowers' Substack In Debt on July 23, 2026. https://indebt.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-credit

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Mark Huelsman @markhuelsman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It looks like the House of Representatives is done for the week, and will be out of D.C. until Apr. 28. No action was taken to address the $1.1 billion hole that it blew in the city's local budget, raising the potential that cuts to programs and staff will start being made.

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Mark Huelsman @markhuelsman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025

People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.

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Mark Huelsman @markhuelsman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Forbearance steering is now the official policy of the Department of Education.

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

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Protect Borrowers @protectborrowers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

By eliminating CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman, the President is making clear his crusade to “delete” the CFPB is a gift to corporations and a betrayal of working families. protectborrowers.org...

"This work matters. It’s a lifeline for borrowers and a safeguard against a system that too often fails them. Dismantling this function is unconscionable and will cost real people real money." — Julia Barnard, illegally fired top student loan industry watchdog

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Mark Huelsman @markhuelsman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Look, you may not like it, but when it comes to lowering costs for families, taking $300 billion to make your student loans more painful and another $200 billion to quite literally snatch food away from hungry people, well, that's just what peak performance looks like.

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Mark Huelsman @markhuelsman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The overall human toll here is staggering and honestly hard to wrap your head around, but it’s also just true that *ALL OF THIS* (gutting CFPB, draining colleges of funding overnight, and the expected deregulatory barrage from ED) is going to result in massive cost spikes for middle-class families.

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Protect Borrowers @protectborrowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

NEW POLL: Trump's plan to abolish @usedgov is extremely unpopular among voters. protectborrowers.org/new-poll-con...

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