At 4:40 am Saturday morning, a lame duck Republican Congress passed its final piece of legislation -- a series of mainly middle class tax law extensions that will increase the deficit by $38 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The higher ed centerpiece of the under radar bill is…

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