I know, I know...gotta suck it up to keep the Queen out of the WH.
I hate to break this to you, but if you default... and then make good payments for 6 months or so, you can get your loans forgiven today... Ex used to work with folks who defaulted on loans, literally all they had to do was make new agreement, pay for 6 months and then ask for forgiveness and it would be written completely off..
What the US really needs is to stop sending people who truly don’t belong in college to college... but that’s a discussion for another time.