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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Tonight, along the way to deal to lift the nation's debt ceiling reached.

One major concession from the White House, the restart of payments on federal student loans later this summer.

Payments that have been paused since the start of the pandemic.

The September 1 dot clock is starting. You're going to repay your loans.

On Wednesday, the White House used the student loan payment pause as a bargaining chip in its grueling horse trading with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

But the argument long simmering over student debt flared up last August when Biden announced.

We will forgive $10,000 in outstanding federal student loans.

In addition, students who come from low income families, which allow them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have their debt reduced $20,000.

Since then, the president's plan has been simply battered.

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