• Biden’s student loan plans haven’t bought him enough goodwill with young voters

    President Joe Biden has worked to woo young voters with his student loan forgiveness plan, but he is still lagging with the demographic in polls against former President Donald Trump. In two polls released on Thursday, Biden has smaller leads over Trump with young voters than four years ago — in a group he needs […]

  • Trump Warns Voters, 'Especially the Young People,' About Biden's Plan to Ban TikTok

    At one time toward the end of his presidency, Donald Trump's administration pushed for the sale of TikTok out of the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Trump, at the time, was wholly correct in his desire to do so - the problems with the app and how it subverts American interests and American youth are well-documented.

  • Biden's student loan debt 'forgiveness' plan could add up to $750 billion to national deficit: Report

    The Biden administration's latest plan to wipe out federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers could add up to $750 billion to the national deficit, according to a Tuesday report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.So far, the White House has announced $150 billion in so-called student loan "forgiveness" programs over the last year following the Supreme Court's June decision to reject unilateral loan cancellations. The previously rejected program would have wiped out $430...

  • Student debt is bad, student debt bailouts are worse

    Student debt, a new Gallup report shows, is making it harder for young people to reach key life milestones. According to a Gallup survey of over 14,000 adults, over 70% of people say student debt has “delayed major life events” including moving out of their parents’ home, getting married, and having a child. Strikingly, there […]

  • Student debt is devastating borrowers. Biden is determined to fix that

    Few issues have vexed the Biden administration like student loan forgiveness. Given that more than 40 million Americans owe money on their student loans, for a total of $1.6 trillion, few issues have such a large impact on so many. Democrats and progressives have long prioritized this matter, and President Joe Biden promised to fight for significant debt relief before taking office. Even though his ambitious proposal to use his executive authority to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt...

  • Biden's student debt cancellation could cost taxpayers $1.4 trillion

    (The Center Square) – President Joe Biden's plans to cancel student debt for some borrowers could cost taxpayers up to $1.4 trillion, depending on how the plans are implemented, a new report estimates. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated all Biden's recent debt cancellation efforts would cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion. "That’s more than all federal spending on higher education over the nation’s entire history,"...

  • Biden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election-year move for young voters

    PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he’s moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana. Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has […]

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    Biden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election-year move for young voters

    By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden has made a number of election-year moves intended to appeal to younger voters. The latest is a proposal by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, which is now under review at the White House Office of

  • Trump seeks to pry ‘young’ voters from Biden over TikTok ban brewing in Congress

    Former President Donald Trump is attempting to tie brewing legislation potentially banning TikTok to President Joe Biden as he courts young voters. The House advanced legislation Saturday included in the foreign aid bills, forcing the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners within a year to avoid a ban in the United States. The Senate […]

  • James Carville Lashes Out at Young Voters Turning on Joe Biden: 'F ck You!'

    Democrat strategist James Carville lashed out at woke young voters who have turned on President Joe Biden.

  • Biden Administration Drops Planned Ban on Menthol Cigarettes Over Fear of Angering Minority Voters

    As RedState has reported in numerous articles (see "RELATED" at the bottom), the Biden administration has been wrestling mightily with whether or not to ban menthol cigarettes since 2021.

  • Letters to the Editor: Of course the GOP opposes student debt relief. Educated voters aren't good for it

    To the editor: Columnist Michael Hiltzik asks a question on student loan debt relief that is fundamental to the direction of this country and should dominate economic policy in the 2024 election. ("Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes," column, April 16) For far too long, Republicans have maligned any form of student debt relief under the guise that it cost the taxpayers in order to fund "worthless gender studies degrees." They...