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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

That Was An Option?

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 4 of Thursday's A&G: Alison Somin from The Pacific Legal Foundation joins to talk about the lawsuit fighting the Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Plan. Why are we not working as a country? Is race to blame? More on Hurricane Ian, and more.

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0:00.0

The

0:21.8

according to estimates from the

0:23.3

Congressional Budget Office,

0:25.1

President Biden's plan to forgive

0:26.6

$10,000 per borrower in federal

0:29.1

student loan debt will cost nearly

0:30.8

$400 billion or in student loan terms

0:34.1

$27 a month for 30 billion years.

0:37.4

Yeah, it's actually closer to

0:40.9

$500 billion, half a trillion dollars

0:43.7

with the stroke of a pen which

0:45.0

would obviously be the most

0:46.4

expensive executive order ever and

0:48.8

incredibly unfair and not progressive.

0:51.8

So I would like to live in a world

0:54.6

where you could just declare that

0:55.9

stupid and unfair and have it go away,

0:57.9

but you can't do that.

0:58.9

You have to go through all the legal

1:00.3

reasons for doing it.

1:01.3

And so a lot of legal experts were

1:03.2

saying, yeah, it sounds illegal,

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