OUr Mission
Right-wing officials are committed to
pushing millions of Americans further into debt.
So We're taking action.
Working families across America are struggling to make ends meet. Household debt is steadily on the rise as costs continue to increase. Credit card debt has skyrocketed to more than $2.8 trillion and 100 million Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt. More than 45 million Americans are crushed under the weight of the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis. This debt crisis affects every aspect of people’s lives, delaying homeownership, starting families, and saving for retirement.
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The costs of education, rent, food, childcare, and medical care continue to squeeze workers and families—pushing them further into the red. Instead of working to bring down the cost of living, President Trump and right-wing policymakers are looking to give tax cuts to billionaires and the largest corporations on the backs of working families. We refuse to accept this.
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President Trump and his accomplices in Congress are working to make Project 2025 the law of the land, causing uncertainty for everyday Americans and wreaking havoc on the economy. They have muzzled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the watchdog tasked with protecting Americans from predatory lenders and corporate criminals. They have fired federal workers at the Department of Education charged with protecting students from shady for-profit colleges that leave students with worthless degrees and mountains of debt. They are putting billionaires over borrowers.
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Protect Borrowers Action is fighting back.
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Protect Borrowers Action lifts up the voices of millions of Americans struggling with debt, demanding officials build an economy that works for all of us. We are working to educate constituents on the actions their elected officials have taken, and making sure that right-wing politicians hear from the constituents they want to keep drowning in debt.
Who We Are
Protect Borrowers Action is led by the advocates and strategists who built the movement to deliver life-changing relief for the millions of Americans crushed by the burden of student debt.
“Working people burdened with student debt are mad as hell over the hypocrisy of treating conservative billionaires one way and those striving for the middle class another. Right-wing politicians need to hear loud and clear that when they put the interests of conservative billionaires above the financial welfare of their own constituents, they will be held accountable. Protect Borrowers Action will educate and empower voters with the knowledge necessary to do just that. Gone are the days where politicians get a pass for being complicit in the student debt crisis plaguing our communities.” Randi Weingarten, President of AFT