Elizabeth Warren Pans Education Department For Drawn-Out Debt Relief Process

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday slammed the Obama administration for imposing unnecessary roadblocks on allegedly defrauded for-profit college students eligible for debt cancellations, joining other prominent lawmakers and consumer groups urging Education Secretary Arne Duncan to stop prolonging distress for swindled student debtors.

The rebuke comes as Duncan prepares to leave office this month amid persistent questions about the U.S. Department of Education’s shoddy oversight of dodgy colleges. During his roughly seven-year term, Duncan presided over a doubling of outstanding national student debt to $1.3 trillion, as well as the largest failure of a college chain in U.S. history.