“Runaway College Spending Meets the Working Families Tax Cuts”

House Committee on Education and Workforce Democrats · February 5, 2026

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Chair opening: framing college affordability and Working Families Tax Cut

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Chair (addressed later in transcript as 'Chairman Owens') opened the hearing by describing long-term trends in college enrollment, administrative spending outpacing instruction, and introduced the Working Families Tax Cut as a federal response with four forms of relief including loan-repayment simplification and graduate borrowing caps.

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House Education and Workforce subcommittee hearing on college affordability and the Working Families Tax Cut (HR 1). Witnesses debated causes of rising college costs, effects of federal loan caps and repayment changes, and state-level reforms from Utah and Florida.

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