All rule-making sessions for the Department of Education were held online from the start of the COVID pandemic to the beginning of the second Trump administration. Screenshot/Alexis Gravely

The Education Department’s current rule-making session , in which committee members are determining how to implement new student loan policies, will be delayed by two weeks if Congress fails to pass legislation to keep the government open, Trump officials announced Monday morning.

“There is the possibility—which seems to be growing by the hour—of a lapse in appropriations,” one department official said during the rule-making session’s commencement Monday. “Have no fear, however,” he added, “we do have a contingency plan for that.”

The official, Jeffrey Andrade, deputy assistant secretary for polic

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