Trump's Secret Weapon to Fix the Student Loan Disaster? | Mary Lyn Hammer DSH #1051
Learn why student loan forgiveness promises may have been misleading, and get the real story behind what's happening with loan payments in 2024. Mary Lyn shares her expertise from working with Trump's transition team and explains why the Department of Education's recent actions matter to every student loan borrower.
But that's not all - this powerful conversation also uncovers the truth about Lyme disease's government origins, the education system's hidden problems, and innovative solutions for America's learning crisis. From Ivy League remedial education rates to the truth about standardized testing, this interview exposes the deep-rooted issues in our education system.
Watch now to learn about the upcoming changes to student loan policies and what it means for you. Mary Lyn's unique insights as a federal negotiator and education expert reveal what's really happening behind the scenes in Washington. 🏛️
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Mary Lyn’s Near-Death Experience
05:55 - Government Role Lyme Disease Epidemic
10:25 - Mary Lyn’s Energetic Device
12:56 - Education Insights
14:57 - Student Loan Program Overview
22:01 - On-Ramp Program Explained
22:38 - Mary Lyn’s Top Priority
25:03 - Find Mary Lyn Online
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With Lyme disease, it was the fastest growing epidemic in six continents before COVID.
And the origination of it was from a federal laboratory in Lyme, Connecticut.
See, I've heard of that, how it was made in a factory.
But then they'll just call you a conspiracy theorist if you say that.
All right, guys, here with Mary Lynn.
We are at America Fest.
You ready to get this thing going?
I am.
You got quite a story, so I don't even know where to start, but we got two books here.
First one is Over My Dead Body.
Look at the cover of this one.
So a little out-of-body experience, it looks like.
Yes, several.
So I had Lyme disease, and I had an IV port for the treatments, and I got a blend infection from the IV port.
Wow.
And it had a 3% survival rate.
So I'm very blessed to be here.
Yeah, so the doctor said that to you.
You have a 3% chance?
Well, I did everything they told me, I did research on.
Yeah, because my daughter and I both had Lyme disease.
She was born with it.
And so
they would tell me something and I'd go research it, just my personality.
And with this blood infection, it truly was an act of God that I'm here on several levels.
There was no testing facility for it in the United States.
And one of my therapists said,
At one point, she said, you have the same patterns as this woman who passed away, but I'm still in touch with her husband.
And
so when I was laying in bed and I had turned gray, my hair fell out.
Wow.
And how old were you?
I'd have to calculate that.
I was in my early 40s.
Early 40s, wow.
Yeah.
And
so I was just praying that I wouldn't die.
And my daughter was only six at the time.
And
so
I called her and I said would you please call this man and see if you can get the name of the infection because they just kept putting me on different antibiotics and nothing was working and so she called him and he was in Florida he's the CEO of a big company and
he said I'll be back on Friday and this was a Tuesday and she said I don't think she'll live that long Whoa.
And he called his son and the son went over to the house, pulled the mom's medical records and
gave us the the name of the infection and they got me on the right antibiotic and that turned that turned me around and from that point it was about six weeks before I could walk across a room that's how weak I was
and
and then we
I mean I improved quite a bit and
The second thing that happened that was really,
you know, God just giving messages is over Christmas, this was in September when I almost died.
And over Christmas, I decided we needed to do a Greens First cleanse and get rid of all the toxins from the antibiotics that we'd been on for three years.
And so my daughter and I both started the detox and we both got severely sick.
Whoa.
And the doctor said, your butt infection is back.
And I totally freaked out.
And so he was on the phone with the pharmacist trying to figure out what to put me on.
And I was reading the research on his computer and it said it had a biofilm and I had done quite a bit of research at that time about biofilm.
It's a fibrin fibrinogen material and they had actually pulled it out of my IV port when they were doing a blood draw right before they did emergency surgery to take the port out
and they said it was a fibrin material and Biofilm is a fibrin fibrinogen material.
The pathogens create it themselves to hide in.
So when you're on antibiotics, it's hiding in this biofilm, and all chronic illnesses have this.
So it's hiding in the biofilm, and then when the antibiotics go away, it comes back out.
Wow.
So antibiotics can't kill them when they're in the biofilm.
Correct.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And so it was dissolving the biofilm.
We figured out it was the enzymes.
And we did an enzyme protocol at the same time we did antibiotic protocol on both my daughter and I.
and the Lyme was gone within six weeks.
Wow.
And the blood infection took a little longer because I was very, very sick.
But that was the final piece of it.
There's other pieces.
Yeah.
However, that was the final piece of it.
What a story.
Cause I remember growing up and Lyme disease, they said it was incurable, right?
Like you couldn't recover once you got it.
That's what most people think to this day.
That's what most people think.
Right.
And, you know,
when I was dying, I crossed over several times.
And I grew up in an abusive home.
And one of my brothers passed away two weeks before his fourth birthday.
And
this is hard to talk about.
When I was like literally at the beginning of the tunnel of light, and my brother David was there.
And I said, oh, you're here to take me into the light.
And he said, no, I'm here to tell you it's not your time yet.
You're going back.
And I crossed over several times, but he was there and we would talk and, you know, we'd talk about my daughter and
my purpose for being here.
And
then I came back.
Wow.
I really do believe we all have a purpose in this life, you know, and you're living yours out right now.
It's beautiful with the books you publish and now all the policies are about to get through.
Thank you.
What a journey.
Yeah, it's very exciting.
And I just want to help as many people as possible.
With With Lyme disease, it was the fastest growing epidemic in six continents
before COVID.
So it was by far the most
expansive disease that we had prior to COVID.
And the origination of it was
from a federal laboratory in Lyme, Connecticut.
See, I've heard of that, how it was made in a factory.
But then it would just call you a conspiracy theorist if you say that.
Well, they tried to bury it for a long time.
So this federal laboratory,
like I said, it's in Lyme, Connecticut, which is where the disease came from.
It was the first documented cases of people in the United States where it's the children playing in the forest around this laboratory.
Wow.
And literally today, pretty much everybody that lives there has Lyme disease.
Day.
It's, yeah, it's very prevalent.
And
so the original bacterium was discovered in the early 1800s, and,
you know, it was just like a bacteria like any other bacterias.
And they took it, now it mutates into 14 different life forms that we know of.
Wow.
It
replicates very quickly in certain life forms of bat.
And they were injecting it into ticks.
And the ticks got out.
Interesting.
And so, and then the ticks went to, you know, the deer is where
they're like the carrier.
And so the government was trying to cover that up.
And
like the year I was diagnosed, I was diagnosed in October of 2006.
So it took six and a half years to diagnose me.
And a report came out from the NIH that year saying latent chronic Lyme don't exist.
And that was the same month that I was diagnosed.
And then the Connecticut Attorney General went after the NIH.
He sued them and won because that report was written by doctors who had never treated later chronic Lyme disease.
They knew nothing about it.
Right.
The report was re-released right before the
Healthcare Act was passed,
you know, a little more than a decade ago.
I believe so that the insurance companies didn't have to cover it.
Wow.
And then lo and behold, this year, the
CDC redefined what a diagnosis is for Lyme disease, and the cases immediately shot up by 70%.
Damn.
And I thought, okay, they've spent decades
because Lyme originated in the
1970s.
They've literally spent decades covering it up and then all of a sudden they're promoting it.
And I was like, what is happening right now?
So I'm a researcher.
So I dug in.
And I found out that they're getting ready to release a vaccine.
For Lyme?
Yes.
So they're going to start making our kids get it, right?
Yes.
And
Lyme is like,
it's the same reason why the vaccines don't work for viruses.
Lyme mutates.
Viruses mutate.
So if they don't develop it the way in which it mutates, it's not going to work.
And that's why it's very, very seldom that a flu vaccine will ever work.
Any kind of virus, they all mutate.
And
Lyme mutates.
So unless whatever the vaccine is at the moment is in the same form that the infection is in, which could be parasitic or,
you know, there's 14 different life forms.
So if it's not the right form, it's not going to do anything except put the pathogens in the bottle.
Crazy.
And the reason why they have held back on the vaccine is because there's no studies that have been done to date.
for people who get vaccinated if they already have Lyme disease.
And it's so misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed that that's a real risk and so it's been pulled back
but that's that's why all of a sudden there's all this action around Lyme disease we'll add that to the 78 vaccines they're giving kids right now yeah it's crazy but there will be another few right there yeah that's nuts oh my gosh yeah I'm glad it's finally being brought to light though they hit it for decades wow that's impressive yeah that's so impressive and in fact when COVID hit and I use an energetic device also um yeah could you explain what was on that because i'm wearing one of your bracelets right now so the energetic design if you look at um diseases and pathogens and people like everything on earth has its own energetic signature so if you if you compare that to like a cell phone and
You know, I can put somebody in my device and they have their own unique signature.
I can
do a scan on them.
I can treat them.
I can do all kinds of things remotely because it's like dialing up a phone number.
So
on this device, I can do
like diagnosis type things.
It literally tests everything in your body.
It scans everything in your body.
So there's no guesswork.
You know, like the doctors say, well, you know, that's why they call it practicing medicine because they're literally just practicing.
They,
you know, well, let's.
throw this at the wall and see if it sticks.
And this actually looks at everything.
So then I find patterns and and treat the patterns and I can prioritize that way I can tell what's what's the worst infection that we want to begin with
and then you can do the treatments on there too because the treatments all have an energetic signature right you were describing a story in the earlier how you gave one of these braces to someone who had ADHD right and they immediately that night did all their homework Yes, yeah.
And he was in the third grade.
It was the first time in his life that he finished his homework without getting up from the table.
Wow.
And within a week, he was caught up on all of his homework and he stopped getting in trouble at school.
And I have, you know, big wig.
Do you know who Jay Abraham is?
I do.
Jay wears my bracelets.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow, that's impressive.
That's a big person.
Well, when I first had him, I only had the kids' bracelets.
And so I had a meeting with Jay and he.
you know, I was telling him about it and he said, well, it worked for me.
And I gave him a couple.
I said, just put them in your pocket.
You know, kids' bracelets.
and he called later he said how long do these last and i said well they you know you wash them every couple weeks and put them in the sun to recharge them but the programs on there will will get recharged as well i love it so he's like i have this big meeting to go to so i'm gonna wear them so i met with him uh last week again and i gave him an adult bracelet let's go well this is a good segue into the education part you know every teacher should be wearing these but i'd love to learn more about what you're doing on the education front too because you're doing some big things there yeah um
so i was the first default manager in the history of the country and that was right after graham redmond passed um in the 1980s where that was a balanced budget act um passed by ragneck reagen and
they had uh it was also the first time that they had a national computer system well so
They collected,
well, they confiscated tax refunds for people who who had defaulted on their student loans.
And then all of a sudden they went, oh my gosh, look at how much money there is if we actually get the money from the student loans.
And so they made it a priority to actually start collecting on student loans.
And I was the first full-time default manager in the country.
Wow.
And I came out of a banking background.
And I was young.
I was very passionate about helping the kids.
There was fraud and abuse going on at the time.
And I ended up turning evidence and testifying for the Department of Ed and doing these hearings all over the country.
But I was so young.
And, you know, because my boss kept saying, you're meant for greater things and you're going to go on.
And I was like, okay, well, happy hours starting right now, you know,
because I was like 26.
Yeah.
You got thrown straight in the firepool.
Yeah, I didn't really realize what was happening, but he ended up being my greatest supporter and allowed me to copyright my program in my own name.
I worked with the Department of Education and I wrote the first regulatory language, the entire section of Appendix D, which was mandatory for high default rate schools from 1989 to 1996.
And I helped write all of the laws about it.
I've been a federal negotiator many times and I've worked on every Higher Education Amendment Act.
since 1988.
And we have a lot of work to do.
So
the last time Trump was in office, I worked with his transition team.
I had just turned evidence against the Department of Education for manipulating data and press releases to drive an agenda to put for-profit schools out of business.
And so I turned evidence.
I worked with the House and Senate
Education Committee chairman.
I worked with Javeson Chaffetz, who was the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
And we removed 982 pages of federal regulations based on those lies
under
Secretary DeVos.
I've worked with them before, so I already have all my materials ready to go.
This is what needs to be done.
The student loan program is in nightmare right now.
The interest rates are too high, right?
Well, the interest rates are dictated by the promissory note.
that's in effect at the time when they take the loans out.
And there's very few of them that are a variable interest rate.
There are a few, but they all have a cap.
The main problem here is that these kids have been lied to for the last four years.
Student loan forgiveness, they never intended on doing that.
And I've been saying that for years.
So, you know, it was shot down by the Supreme Court twice because it's the The department doesn't have the authority to forgive loans.
It has to come from Congress.
Wow.
And there's a very specific law.
I'm a complete geek.
So it's
31 USC 3711 defines how any debt to the government has to be repaid and collected.
And that applies to the Department of Education.
So they can't exempt themselves from that law.
And so the departure or the Supreme Court struck it down twice, gone through appeals, it keeps getting struck down.
And
the Biden administration went through a whole negotiator rulemaking process, which is normally follows a law.
Like the normal sequence of events is a law is written, and then the federal regulations are negotiated by people who are affected by them.
And it's with the purpose of telling the general public how to implement the law because most people don't know how to read legal language.
So
this was federal regulations that were not based on law
and it was an overstep of authority.
They went through the whole negotiation process.
They did not get consensus, which normally your job is to get consensus.
And they did not get consensus.
Then they published them to the public.
It has to go through a public review process called the NOSA proposed rulemaking.
And the public comments go in and they're supposed to consider those before they publish the final regulations.
C.
And they would have had to publish those by November 1st for them to go into effect next July.
They didn't publish them.
They went through that whole process and didn't publish them.
So on the day that they should have come out, they made another announcement saying they were going to do another proposed rulemaking
process.
Wow.
And it was a total diversion.
So they're just denying it.
Yeah, to mask the fact that they completely blew it off and that's what i'd been saying all along is that it it was all political they had no intention of writing off the laws or off the loans the um
student loans is the next most profitable business next to the irs and pharma right yeah yeah those are probably the top three yeah
So they didn't intend on it, but these people have been fed this story for so long that they don't think they need to be responsible.
And so when when we're calling them saying, no, you actually have to pay your loan, and they're like, no, I was told it was being forgiven.
And that's a very difficult position to be in to have conversations like that where you're saying, well, no, no, no, not really.
You've been lied to by like the top echelon of the government.
Yeah.
So now they're handing it to Trump's administration.
And then you got him saying he wants to get rid of the whole Department of Education, right?
Yeah.
How do you feel about that?
Well, I feel like,
in a way it makes sense because constitutionally education is supposed to be controlled by the states.
That was taken away during with No Child Left Behind, which passed in 1993.
So that's really the last time that the states were running their education department like at full force.
So a lot of those people have left.
And the knowledge of how to do that is no longer there.
A bill was passed in December of 2016 that allowed the states to take education over again.
It's called Every Student Succeeds Act.
And until that happens, No Child Left Behind stays in force.
And No Child Left Behind, what it's done is it, you know, I've interviewed teachers all over the country.
They spend the first third and the last third of the year assessing people.
And the middle third trying to teach a year worth of curriculum.
I mean, it's a complete fail.
And our children are
assessed an average of 212 times from kindergarten through high school.
Wow.
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
That's just crazy.
And then when they don't pass the standards, they lower the standards, you know, instead of saying, you know, belly up, try something different.
But they, they're literally taught how to pass a test instead of learning.
Right.
They're taught to memorize.
Right.
And so what we teach financial literacy for college students and we, and we've gone back into high schools, we had to add basic math
to our financial literacy course because they don't even know how to add or subtract what college students yeah yeah yeah the the um there was a study done of ivy league schools a few years ago and they recruit the top three to four percent of test scores in the country yeah
42 percent of their students need some type of remedial math or reading wow It's just shocking.
And that's an Ivy League.
So imagine.
Yeah, the top three to 4% of our students need remedial, 42% need remedial.
Like, imagine what the rest of the country is like.
Yeah.
It's just such a big fail.
And, you know, so the priorities were, as far as I'm concerned, is, first of all, straightening out the student loan program.
One of the other things that was done in this on-ramp program didn't allow the servicers to report delinquencies or defaults
for a year.
So that took us to October 1st.
Then
the service, the federal services were told to put everybody on administrative forbearance that were
enrolled in the SAVE program.
There's a lot more than just those people in administrative forbearance, but it dropkicked the payment date until after Trump is in office.
About 67% of these students are due in February and March.
So it's going to be
the delinquencies and the defaults are going to hit when Trump's in office, so they can can blame him.
Yeah, he'll take the blame, right?
Yeah.
So I'm going to do everything I can to get a grip on that as quickly as possible.
Yeah.
So that's the number one priority.
And then I think working with lawmakers, the last time the higher education amendments were passed was 2008.
Wow, that's a long time.
Yeah.
And they're supposed to pass, they're supposed to reauthorize it every six years.
So it's been 16 years.
So they missed two reauthorizations, basically.
Yes.
Going on three.
Wow.
What do you think is causing that delay?
Infighting.
Infighting?
Yeah.
Oh, really?
The politicians are, you know, it's like they're spending all of their time playing politics instead of doing their jobs.
And then, you know,
as Trump calls it, the swamp goes into the bureaucracy because they have an attitude, the people working for the government, and it is very hard to
get rid of people who aren't performing there because they're protected.
But they have an attitude of, I'm going to be here after you're gone, so I'm going to do what I want.
Yeah.
Well, that won't happen with Doge now, right?
Doge coming in.
It's going to take a lot to turn this bus around.
Oh, God.
You know, there was
it was either 1.6 or 1.7 new federal jobs created in the last four years.
Wow.
Yeah, I know the IRS hired a lot.
Yeah, they hired about 81,000 people that don't know what they're doing.
Crazy.
I have several companies and it's like, I'm just getting all these letters.
We haven't processed your forms.
My accountant told me the other day there's over 2 million IRS forms that have not been processed and most of them are disputes.
It's so crazy.
I really hope they go to a flat tax because I get way too much anxiety with the IRS.
Yeah.
Well, most other countries, that's what they have.
It's so easy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a flat tax.
The rulebook's not a thousand pages.
Yeah, exactly.
No, no loopholes.
It reduces audits.
There's, you know, there's a lot of reasons for that.
And, you know,
if you compare kind of the same theory to Graham Rudman, the Balanced Budget Act, and we got a balanced budget in a fairly short amount of time under that.
And it was because it was 10% cuts across the board.
So there was no politics.
You know, when it's a flat rate, they can't play politics.
And so that makes life a whole lot easier.
Absolutely.
Well, Mary Lynn, where can people keep up with you, get your books and follow you and everything?
Well, I'm on social media,
Facebook under MarylynHammer.com.
On Instagram, I'm Hammertime.
Oh, I love that username.
That's my license plate, too.
It's HMR underscore T Y M.
Love it.
I'm on LinkedIn.
And, you know, I just, like I said, I want to help as many people as possible.
We'll work with the Trump transition team to straighten out student loans and just, you know, just be aware of, you know, the reality is if there's no free lunch.
Yeah, yeah, thanks for everything you do.
I can't wait to keep up with you.
Thank you.
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