A key office in the Department of Education responsible for fielding grievances about student loans has a backlog of more than 27,000 complaints after losing nearly two-thirds of its staff.

Financial aid offices are buckling under rising demands and shrinking resources, impacting student services, according to a five-year report from NASFAA.

Medical students will be barred from borrowing more than $50K per year, with a $200K lifetime cap. Some say that students need to be working harder to pay for higher education while others say the caps put the onus back on colleges and universities to rein in the rising cost of tuition.

Trump has pushed to dismantle the Education Department, but his new spending law gives it major new responsibilities, including expanded Pell Grants and loan repayment plans. The move ironically strengthens the agency he wanted to shut down.