Student Loan Confusion Grows as Trump Moves to Shut Down Education Department

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  Here's your money briefing for Thursday, March 27th.

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  I'm Dalvin Brown for the Wall Street Journal.

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  Student loan borrowers have faced a series of setbacks,

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  from stalled forgiveness efforts to a rocky FAFSA rollout.

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  Now they say they're left with even more questions after the Trump administration moves to dismantle the very office that.

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  That has handled those loans for decades.

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  A lot of student loan advisors and folks in financial aid are just unsure of what to expect next.

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  So they're telling borrowers and students to stay the course of whatever their original plans were and just to stay abreast.

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  For new news updates, we'll hear from.

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  Wall Street Journal reporter Oyen Adedoyan about what's next after the President Trump has set in motion plans to break down the Education Department,

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  which manages roughly $1.7 trillion in student loans.

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  The news has left many borrowers wondering what this could mean for their debt.

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  One of them is Olivia Hardy.

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  She's a Broadway performer in New York City who still owes about $10,000.

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  Are my interest rates affected?

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  Is my loan provider affected?

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  Like, who exactly am I now paying this to?

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  I think it is kind of a weird limbo that we're stuck in. I'm just kind of like, well,

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  I guess I'll just continue doing what I always have until something tells me

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  that I shouldn't be doing this,

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