Latest Bill Cassidy News

Hundreds of thousands of financial aid applications need to be fixed after latest calculation error

Mar. 22, 2024 19:47 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Mar. 17, 2024 07:27 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security spokesman John Kirby; Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. ___ NBC's “Meet the Press” — Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Ben Cardin, D-Md.; José Andrés, founder of World...

Editorial Roundup: Louisiana

Jan. 25, 2024 07:16 AM EST

The Advocate. January 18, 2024. Editorial: Lawmakers should reject expensive and unfair closed party primary system State lawmakers have only one deadline looming in the current special legislative session: the court-ordered creation of a second majority-Black...

Biden withholds $2M from student loan servicers after companies bungled billing statements

Jan. 05, 2024 17:57 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is docking more than $2 million in payments to student loan servicers that failed to send billing statements on time after the end of a coronavirus pandemic payment freeze. The Education Department said Friday it will withhold payments...