In 2020, during the pandemic, nurses were hailed as heroes. Now, only a few years later, the Trump Administration is claiming we aren’t professionals and capping advanced nursing degree loans at just $20,500 a year. This proposal will deepen labor shortages in nursing and other crucial fields, and make it harder for those in underserved areas — including Black, brown, and immigrant communities — to pursue advanced degrees.
To put it simply: nurse burnout will get worse, and access to culturally informed care for all will decrease. Act Now: Tell Congress workers shouldn’t have to pay the price!
This is yet another instance of this Administration attacking working people by rewriting the rules and pushing us backward. As it undermines access to advanced nursing degrees, slashes Medicaid, guts worker protections, and fuels division, it’s become clear this chaos is by design.
This is an attack on our healthcare system and a slap in the face to the community of healthcare workers who provide us with life-saving care every day. Rolling back degree designations devalues the years of education and expertise nurses bring when taking care of you and your loved ones.
As nurses, we show up for our patients and our profession. We organize to build collective power to improve safety, wages and benefits, and the quality of care our patients receive. This isn’t just about loan limits — it’s about recognition, respect, equity, and protecting the future of care in our country. We cannot afford the costs of another bad healthcare policy at a time when our hospitals and nursing homes are facing a staffing crisis.
As workers, we’re fighting back, just like we always have, to demand that the Trump Administration protects nursing education and defends the value of this vital profession.
We’re calling on our community to stand with nurses and push back against policies that jeopardize access to advanced education and quality care.
Fight back by contacting your members of Congress to tell them to protect access to advanced nurse education.
In solidarity,
Ashley Grieco
Registered Nurse
Pittsburgh, PA
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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