Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed when she launched into a rant about why college should be free.

In the process, she told a blatant lie about the Trump administration, saying ‘They don’t want women to go to college.’

First of all, college is free for many people in this country because of scholarships and grants. Second, women now vastly outnumber men on American college campuses. If anyone is being denied the college experience, it’s men not women.

And finally, what evidence does she have that the Trump administration is trying to keep women out of college?

It’s amazing how often she is allowed to just make things up with no challenge from anyone in media.

The Washington Examiner has details:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted the Trump administration, saying the Department of Education’s rule limiting student loan programs targets women-dominated fields.

“I want to be very clear that what the Trump administration is doing, specifically, is attacking women’s ability to get an education,” Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday during the “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard” town hall in Escanaba, Michigan, with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed.

Under the DOE’s new rule, Student Tuition and Transparency System and Earnings Accountability, announced in June, undergraduate programs will need to show proof that their graduates earn more money than those without a college degree, and graduate programs need to show that their graduates earn more money than an individual with a bachelor’s degree. If they fail to show enough return on investment, they will be disqualified from federal student loan programs…

According to the Los Angeles Times, the DOE will prevent federal student loan access for college programs that don’t earn enough postgraduation.

“Because they put down that list on what they’re making harder, what they’re not going to give people student loans for, and it’s nurses, it’s teachers, it’s social workers,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They don’t want women to go to college.”

Here’s the video:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) (D-NY) says Trump administration is attacking woman’s ability to get an education: “When we make a business from education, our community gets left behind…they don’t want women to go to college.” pic.twitter.com/2Yd2bO0ThJ

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 15, 2026

The simple fact is that not everyone needs to go to college.

We would be much better off as a country if more people went to trade schools or just entered the workforce.