A Colorado borrower moved off SAVE and into the Repayment Assistance Plan faces, on average, $2,512 in added payments every year by the Center for American Progress's estimate, and that plan exists because of the House bill Lauren Boebert's yea pushed through by one vote on May 22, 2025; she then voted for the final law on July 3, 2025.
Colorado graduate students lost Grad PLUS loans and parents face new borrowing caps under that law, and the cuts trace back to Boebert's decisive February and April 2025 votes for a budget resolution that ordered the education committee to save at least $330 billion.
Lauren Boebert's Votes on Student Loans and College Aid for Coloradans
- Colorado Borrowers Leaving SAVE Owe More Under the Repayment Plan Boebert's Deciding Vote Created. Lauren Boebert was among the yeas when H.R. 1 cleared the House on May 22, 2025 by 215 to 214, one member voting present, and without her the bill would have failed. That version established "the income-based Repayment Assistance Plan," which the final law kept. Across the country, the Center for American Progress estimates, borrowers moved from SAVE into the new plan pay $2,163 more per year on average.
- Colorado Graduate Students and Parents Lose Federal Loan Options in the Final Law Boebert Voted For. Boebert was a yea again on July 3, 2025, when the House sent the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act to the president, 218 to 214. The law closes Graduate PLUS loans to new graduate borrowers, and a parent borrowing for a son's or daughter's schooling now hits limits of $20,000 a year and $65,000 per student overall. For new loans, income-driven repayment gives way to the Repayment Assistance Plan, which TICAS found "will require payments from even those earning far below the poverty level," and New America concluded that "those with the lowest incomes will face higher monthly bills" than before. The Center for American Progress's analysis of the law's graduate loan limits finds shortfalls for "13 percent of master's degree borrowers and 46 percent of professional degree borrowers," pushing many toward "more expensive private loans."
- Colorado Students Lose College Aid Under the Law Built on the Budget Plan Boebert's Votes Decided in 2025. Boebert's yea counted on both versions of H.Con.Res. 14, which passed by two votes in February 2025, 217 to 215, and by two again on April 10, 2025, 216 to 214, margins her switch alone would have turned into failing ties. It instructed the Committee on Education and Workforce to "reduce the deficit by not less than $330,000,000,000" over a decade. The final law she voted for in July cuts student aid: by the Center for American Progress's count, the law "takes away about $300 billion in federal support" that helps low- and middle-income students pay for college.
What Lauren Boebert's Student Loan Votes Cost Colorado Borrowers
- Colorado borrowers moved off SAVE will pay $2,512 more each year. The Center for American Progress estimates that the average Colorado borrower pushed from SAVE into the new plan pays an extra $2,512 annually, more than the national figure, which works out to over $200 a month that is no longer there for rent, child care or savings.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lauren Boebert on Student debt
What is Lauren Boebert's record on student debt under Trump?
Lauren Boebert's yea decided the May 2025 House vote on the bill that set up the Repayment Assistance Plan, and her July 3, 2025 yea went to the final law, which shut down Grad PLUS and put limits on parent loans; by CAP's estimate a Colorado borrower moved off SAVE now pays $2,512 more each year on average. Her decisive 2025 budget votes ordered the education committee to find at least $330 billion in savings.
Can Colorado borrowers who lose a job still pause their student loans after Lauren Boebert's vote?
Fewer can: the law Lauren Boebert voted for takes away protections such as the option to defer payments because of economic hardship or unemployment, New America explains. Together with the new repayment plan, that leaves Colorado borrowers who hit hard times with fewer ways to keep up.
What happens to Colorado parents who take out Parent PLUS loans under the law Lauren Boebert voted for?
Any Parent PLUS loan originating July 1, 2026 or later is cut off, by the law Lauren Boebert voted for, from the income-contingent repayment path that was the program's only income-based backstop, the Center for American Progress explains. Colorado parents with those loans are limited to a new tiered standard plan, on top of the $65,000 lifetime cap per student.
Last updated: 2026-10-27