Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are calling on CFPB’s student loan ombudsman to protect student loan borrowers.

FIRST IN MORNING ED - WHAT'S GOING ON, OMBUDSMAN: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are pressing Geoffrey Gradler, who became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Student Loan Ombudsman in January, to commit to protecting student loan borrowers - and said his background seems to suggest he may do the opposite.

"At a time when the Trump administration is already stripping borrowers, students, and families of their access to federal support and affordable repayment plans, rolling back consumer protections, and decimating the Department of Education, student loan borrowers deserve a Student Loan Ombudsman who they can count on to protect them from bad actors," the senators wrote in a Monday letter shared first with POLITICO.

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