Dozens of Donations to Liberal/Far-left candidates, including:
· Biden for President – 19 donations totaling $283in the 2020 cycle.
· Biden Victory Fund – 6/27/2024 – $25.
· Beto for America – 4 donations totaling $35 in the 2020 cycle.
· Pete for America – 9 donations totaling $64 in the 2020 cycle
· Harris for President/Harris Victory Fund – 9 donations totaling $233.26 in 2024 cycle.
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As OpenSecrets notes, "Only a tiny fraction of Americans actually give campaign contributions to political candidates, parties or PACs. Just 0.97% of the United States population contributed more than two hundred dollars to federal candidates, PACs, parties and outside groups [last cycle]" This is the reason campaign contributions are such an instructive tool in analyzing civil servants, because only the most avid partisans - less than one percent - write a check to a candidate.
U.S. Department of Education – 1994 – Present.
U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor – Staff Attorney – 1992 - 1994.
Chairman William D. Ford, U.S. House of Representatives – Various positions - 1985 – 1992.
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The Institute for College Access and Success is a far-left organization that advocates for free student loans. In 2014, they released a report entitled “Should all student loan payments be income driven” that included the following acknowledgement to McGinnis:
Our colleagues Pauline Abernathy and Debbie Cochrane provided invaluable insights and suggestions. We are grateful for feedback and expertise from Dr. Sandy Baum (The George Washington University), Dr. Angela Boatman and Dr. Brent Evans (Vanderbilt University), Dr. Bruce Chapman (Australian National University), Deanne Loonin and Persis Yu (National Consumer Law Center), Elaine Maag (Urban Institute), Colleen McGinnis (U.S. Department of Education), Bob Shireman (California Competes), and Adela Soliz (Harvard University). Thanks also to the other Lumina grantees in this white paper series for their contributions to the field. (2)
[Emphasis added.]
Receiving accolades from the Institute for College Access and Success, a far-left organization, suggests that McGinnis supports education policies that are out of step with a conservative administration.
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Under the Obama Administration, McGinnis was the Chief of Staff of the Federal Student Aid (FSA) office at the Department of Education. The first Trump administration moved her out of leadership of the department to become the Chief Performance Officer. (Source) When the Biden Administration took the helm and Richard Cordray was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Federal Student Aid, she established herself as the Chief of Staff of FSA. (Source)
As the Chief of Staff to the COO of Federal Student Aid for the last two Democratic administrations, she is a partisan who is a survivor that could impede conservative reforms.
McGinnis started her career as a congressional staffer 1985-1992 for Chairman William D. Ford of the House Committee on Education & Labor. (Source) Ford was from Michigan and namesake of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program. (Source)
McGinnis has received acknowledgment for assisting leftist education organizations with their research and reports pushing for free student loan agenda such as The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). (Source)