American Accountability Foundation

President Biden is putting massive new spending next to curtailing access to career colleges. His 2024 budget request for the Student Financial Aid Office of Enforcement released in March is dramatically increasing the enforcement budget. At $26.5 million, the new 2024 budget request represents a 600 percent increase in taxpayer funds to the office. History […]

Richard Cordray has grafted into the Office of Enforcement from his tenure at the CFPB a sue and harass model where he uses the heft of the federal government and its allies to bring disfavored industries to heel. Documents obtained by AAF from state attorney general offices show that Cordray explicitly told AGs that as […]

Anyone who has been in Washington knows that ultimately personnel is policy – who you hire is just as, if not more, important than – what you hire them to do. The zealousness and conviction of your team will determine whether you can prevail in contentious battles in the public square. Cordray knows this model […]

Cordray has deputized liberal Attorneys General into his fight in a partisan matter that excludes moderate and conservative AGs and has worked with left-wing AGs to weaponize their offices to help prosecute his fight against career colleges. Cordray understands that a multi-front legal fight against career college access makes it much more likely that he […]

The Biden Department of Education (DoE) has weaponized the student aid process to force students to choose state-run or traditional private colleges and universities instead of career colleges, even if career colleges are the best fit for the student. Historically, parents, fulltime workers, minorities, veterans, and first-generation college students tend to choose career colleges in […]