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With half a trillion dollars you can also open a lot of universities. Increased supply would lower prices for everyone. One could even open public universities and offer education at very reduced or no tuition.
Lack of supply is not the reason post secondary education is expensive.
Source? If you're curious cost as it relates to supply and demand of higher education, here's one [1].

[1] https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documen...

There are very many universities with zero or no tax, most of them in socialist countries. Why don't you go there? Maybe because none of those matter when serious education is considered.
The world keeps showing the USA things can be better, but some of you really are entrenched deep in American hubris
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