Donald Trump doesn't just excel at filling government roles with the most destructive people possible, he also has a unique talent for chasing away people who would otherwise be doing some good. Take, for example, the hemorrhaging of officials at the EPA, or the HIV/AIDS advisory council, from which several members resigned in protest late last year when it became clear that the Trump administration had exactly zero interest in adding any time or resources to the fight against the spread of the disease. (Trump petulantly disbanded the whole council afterward.)

And now the federal government has lost one more person tasked with looking out for the best interests of students. According to the Associated Press, Seth Frotman, the highest-ranking official in charge of overseeing the $1.5 trillion student-loan industry, has resigned from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying it's become obvious to him that the administration, and CFPB head Mick Mulvaney, have nothing but, as the AP puts it, "open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers."

This is a loss because Frotman predates Trump, having held his position for more than seven years, and his role is typically apolitical and bipartisan. But we've sadly reached a point where not wanting to see students ground into the dirt by monstrous loans has become a partisan position. In his resignation letter addressed to Mulvaney, Frotman writes, "You have used the bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America. The damage you have done to the bureau betrays these families and sacrifices the financial futures of millions of Americans in communities across the country."

This allegation against Mulvaney, that he's more interested in helping giant companies than struggling families, may sound similar to another Trump appointee: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who's made it clear that her agenda for the Department of Education involves prioritizing student-loan companies over students. In fact, DeVos has been part of the struggles with the CFPB's student-loan office. Per the AP:

The office was at the center of the lawsuits against for-profit colleges like Corinthian Colleges and is currently heading up a lawsuit between the CFPB and Navient, one of the nation’s largest student lenders. The Navient lawsuit has been mired in bureaucratic red tape as the Department of Education, headed by Betsy DeVos, has been unwilling to help the CFPB with their lawsuit . Since its creation, the student loan office has returned $750 million to harmed borrowers.

Just think of all the yachts those poor student-loan-company executives could have bought with that $750 million they had to give back to students.