I don’t get it and I’m hoping you can help me figure it out. Why do Republicans oppose President Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt?This Tuesday, seven states, led by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General, sued the Biden administration to stop his most recent attempt to reduce student debt. In a separate lawsuit, ten other Republican-controlled states filed a separate lawsuit to try to block the same Biden effort.The week before, somebody slipped this little gem into Maria Cantwell’s...
The White House on Friday announced it's canceling an additional $75 billion in debt as part of the Biden administration's most recent attempt at widespread student loan forgiveness ahead of the election. The administration announced the handouts, targeted at an estimated 277,000 borrowers across the country, with the national debt topping $34.5 trillion. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER: SEE WHAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (YOU) OWE IN REAL TIME Biden touted his Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan,...
The White House on Friday announced it's canceling an additional $7.4 billion in debt as part of the Biden administration's most recent attempt at widespread student loan forgiveness ahead of the election. The administration announced the handouts, targeted at an estimated 277,000 borrowers across the country, with the national debt topping $34.5 trillion. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER: SEE WHAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (YOU) OWE IN REAL TIME Biden touted his Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan,...
Steve Bannon, former President Trump’s 2016 campaign executive, railed against House Republicans on Monday, claiming that they “want MAGA to go away” and wish to see the former president lose his 2024 White House bid. “Why does [Rep. Jim] Jordan [R-Ohio] not have a criminal conspiracy investigation— from Fani Willis in Georgia to ‘Big Tish James’
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon slammed House Republicans as unsupportive of former President Donald Trump and accused them of wanting to see him lose the November election.
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If you’re confused about President Joe Biden’s various student loan debt-cancellation schemes, who can blame you? And on Tuesday, the Biden administration unveiled its third Read More
Here's how you can take advantage of forgiveness through SAVE if you haven't already.
Biden has now dished out $153 billion in student debt relief trying to fix the broken loan system.
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You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...
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 […]