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Today, Explained

Your student loan bill is due

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Politics, Daily News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration has a warning for student loan borrowers in default: Pay up, or we'll take it out of your paycheck. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Kelli Wessinger, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Andrea López-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatisciore, and hosted by Noel King. Image by Hokyoung Kim for Vox. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The U.S. is having a conversation about whether so many young people really need to be going to college.

0:06.8

It means you are a far-right authorization on ultradic, ultra-nalit, oh my God.

0:17.9

Or whether options like trade school and apprenticeships offer just as good a future with often much less debt.

0:26.9

Unfortunately, we're having this conversation too late for the estimated 42 or 43 million people who hold student loan debt.

0:34.8

More than 5 million of whom are in default, and who, as of next month,

0:39.3

may see the federal government begin to garnish their wages while they're just trying to

0:44.9

live.

0:45.4

Thank goodness I don't have kids.

0:47.6

I mean, I love kids, but there's no way.

0:49.8

No way I could pay on my student loans, pay my rent, pay for groceries, no way.

0:54.8

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0:59.9

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