“For a handsome, steel-engraved picture of our late esteemed fellow-Cincinnatian, Salmon P. Chase, send $10,000 to the U.S. treasury,” Cincinnati Post reporter Eugene Segal wrote in 1928.

That’s because on July 22, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives settled on a budget for the U.S.

The new law will impact roughly 30% of Duke students who take out loans and a host of alumni in the process of paying off ...