‘Those are the people who keep you alive:’ Nurses push back after Trump admin excludes them from ​‘professional’ status

Justin Gill, an urgent-care nurse practitioner in Everett, Washington, said the proposed loan cap of $20,500 per year for graduate nursing students would have been insufficient when he was studying more than a decade ago, let alone today.

“That would not have been enough to cover my expenses going to school as well as my living expenses,” Gill told The Independent. “My parents did not have the ability to pay for my schooling.”

Gill, who described his parents as working-class first-generation Asian-Indian immigrants, said that when he was studying to become a nurse practitioner in 2013 - 2015, his loan did fall under the proposed $100,000 overall limit, but he was “well above” the $20,500 annual cap.