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No Loan Forgiveness for Terrorists Act of 2025
To amend the public service loan forgiveness program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure qualifying public service excludes employment with organizations that engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose.
Summary
This bill amends the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to exclude employment with organizations that engage in activities with a substantial illegal purpose from qualifying as public service employment. Excluded organizations include those that violate immigration laws, materially support terrorism or designated foreign terrorist organizations, materially support child abuse, engage in patterns of illegal discrimination, or engage in patterns of violating state tort laws such as trespassing, disorderly conduct, vandalism, or obstruction of highways. The bill does not establish new criminal laws but rather modifies eligibility requirements for federal student loan forgiveness benefits. Individuals employed by organizations engaged in these illegal activities would not qualify for public service loan forgiveness.
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Sponsor (1)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to W. Gregory Steube’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- CHENEY BROTHERS $7,800
- NEXTGEN MANAGEMENT $6,600
- STEPHENS, INC. $6,600
- NEPTUNE WELLNESS SOLUTIONS $6,600
- COOLTODAY $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for W. Gregory Steube → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Jun 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Jun 4, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 4, 2025
Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the public service loan forgiveness program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure qualifying public service excludes employment with organizations that engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “No Loan Forgiveness for Terrorists Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL ILLEGAL PURPOSE FROM PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN FORGIVENESS.
Section 455(m)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(C) Exclusion from public service job.— Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the term ‘public service job’ excludes employment with any organization that engages in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose, including—
“(i) aiding or abetting a violation of section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325) or another Federal immigration law;
“(ii) materially supporting terrorism, including by facilitating funding to, or the operations of, cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations consistent with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189), or by engaging in violence for the purpose of obstructing or influencing Federal Government policy;
“(iii) materially supporting child abuse, including the chemical or surgical castration or mutilation of children or the trafficking of children to transgender sanctuary States for purposes of emancipation from their lawful parents, in violation of applicable law;
“(iv) engaging in a pattern of aiding or abetting illegal discrimination; or
“(v) engaging in a pattern of violating State tort laws, including laws against trespassing, disorderly conduct, public nuisance, vandalism, or obstruction of highways.”. <all>
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