The GOP's massive tax cut and spending plan has huge implications for the American way of life, impacting food assistance, health care for low-income people, farm policy, energy, the environment — and not least, higher education.

"These are going to be some of the biggest changes in higher ed policy in 20 years," said Lesley Turner, a scholar of student loan policy at the University of Chicago.

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