Daily Take: Why Do Republicans Oppose Joe Biden’s Efforts to Cancel Student Debt?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
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So, what is it? Is it that Republicans simply think having Americans in debt somehow works to their advantage? If so, how does that work?
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| 0:00.0 | Why do Republicans oppose Joe Biden's efforts to cancel student debt? |
| 0:05.0 | I don't get it and I'm hoping you can help me figure it out. |
| 0:09.0 | Why do Republicans oppose President Biden's efforts to cancel student debt. |
| 0:14.4 | This Tuesday, seven states led by Missouri's Republican Attorney General sued the |
| 0:18.5 | Biden administration to stop his most recent attempt to reduce student debt. In a separate lawsuit, 10 other Republican |
| 0:25.1 | controlled states filed a separate lawsuit to try to block the same Biden effort. |
| 0:31.2 | The week before, somebody slipped this little gem into Maria Cantwell's must pass legislation |
| 0:35.9 | reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA. |
| 0:40.0 | My inquiry to her press office was never answered. |
| 0:42.7 | Quote, the Secretary, the Treasury, or the Attorney General, |
| 0:46.4 | may not take any action to cancel or forgive the outstanding balances |
| 0:50.0 | or portion of balances on any federal direct |
| 0:52.3 | on subsidized Stafford loan or otherwise modify the terms or conditions of a federal direct unsubsidized Stafford loan made to an eligible student except as authorized by an act of Congress." |
| 1:04.0 | In other words, it appears they're trying to use the force of law to prevent President |
| 1:09.6 | Biden from forgiving a large category of student loans. But why? No banks are being |
| 1:17.2 | hurt by these loans being forgiven. They're all federal loans funded by the |
| 1:20.4 | government. When the loan is forgiven forgiven the debt simply vanishes. |
| 1:23.6 | It doesn't cost any of us a penny and isn't hurting the big bank donors to the |
| 1:27.0 | GOP. Forgiving student debt is an economic stimulus freeing people up to buy a new |
| 1:32.0 | home, start a new business, or just |
| 1:33.7 | begin the family they've been putting off because of economic uncertainty. |
| 1:37.0 | Everybody benefits. The closest I can come to thinking of a motive for these |
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