Education officials under the Trump administration are pushing back against former President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, which they say will be phased out in the coming weeks.

They also criticized private universities for what they described as a “greedy” sense of entitlement that has fueled a broken and unsustainable higher education funding model.

Fox News anchor Dana Perino summed up the administration’s stance on Fox & Friends Tuesday, stating that “the gravy train is over” for bloated, bureaucratic university systems that have relied on the federal government to supply unlimited funding to students while steadily raising tuition rates.

“Remember, it was Nancy Pelosi who said, ‘Wait a minute, Joe Biden doesn’t have the legal authority to do this,’” Perino said during the segment, a reference to a series of legal setbacks suffered by the former president when his executive orders to hand out student loan forgiveness — after the Supreme Court said he couldn’t — were successfully challenged in court. “They had false hopes, false promises to people.”

Perino added that she sympathizes with those who have unaffordable loans, but that shouldn’t absolve them of their obligation to taxpayers. “It doesn’t mean that the system couldn’t be changed or that the interest rate can’t be lowered, but they are going to have to pay it back,” she said.

Meanwhile, Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended the Trump administration’s decision this week to resume student loan collections after years of extended pauses.

On Monday, the Department of Education announced it would begin contacting 5.3 million borrowers who have fallen into default due to the prolonged suspension of payments.

Both President Biden and university administrators made “empty promises to students while pocketing their loan dollars,” McMahon wrote in a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed this week.

“Colleges and universities call themselves nonprofits, but for years they have profited massively off the federal subsidy of loans, hiking tuition and piling up multibillion-dollar endowments while students graduate six figures in the red,” she added.

McMahon blasted Biden for dangling “the carrot of loan forgiveness in front of young voters” during his 2020 campaign, even though he knew he “never had the authority to forgive student loans across the board.” The Biden administration’s resulting student loan repayment delays and subterfuge have racked up a “massive debt that is now long past due.”