After an unexpectedly slow start, the Trump Administration's deregulatory push finally gained momentum in late 2017. In the field of student lending, this slowdown affected the Department of Education (DOE), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Department of Justice (DOJ)....

With debts rising faster than new graduates' starting salaries, a student debt crisis has the potential to haunt the nation much in the way the mortgage crisis did ten years ago. Beginning in 2016, a new mood dampened the federal bureaucracy's regulatory pace. The DOE, led by Secretary Elisabeth...