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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

Pastor details taking fight to the Trump administration to get her student loans forgiven. All from her hospice bed

Protesters rally against the closure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has become the latest target of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting. A pastor is now the only named plaintiff in a lawsuit over the organization’s closing - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Pastor Eva Steege planned to meet with officials from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on February 10 hoping to get $15,000 of student debt forgiven. She was under the nation’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that is designed to give loan relief to people who participate in public service.

In Steege’s case she used the money to fund her seminary training.

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