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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Where's Governor Holcomb?

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Nearly two dozen GOP governors pen letter to Biden and criticize him for taxpayer-funded student loan handouts, but it lacks Holcomb's signature.

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0:00.0

Let's talk about this letter that the GOP governors have sent to Biden.

0:04.8

Nearly two dozen of them wrote this letter while they signed their name to it.

0:08.7

Criticizing his taxpayer-funded student loan handouts, they express their

0:13.7

concern with how his student loan pay out the transfer of debt is going to

0:18.9

cost taxpayers $500 billion. They say it will negatively impact

0:23.9

lower income families. So this was led by Iowa's governor.

0:27.9

The letter was signed by 22 GOP governors in total. They say that they're punishing the poor

0:35.0

and it shifts the burden of debt from the wealthy to working Americans.

0:40.4

You know who's not on this? By the way, I'm going to read you the states of governors

0:45.4

that have signed this letter. It's a great letter. It makes a ton of sense. It's not going to

0:49.8

do anything to curb the long-term problem of the price of college. It's going to force people

0:56.6

regular people making $50,000 a year to pay for rich people to have their college paid for.

1:03.6

It's a rare random accidental, likely confused act of common sense and accountability from

1:11.2

Republicans. I'm going to read you the states of the governors, the Republican governors who have

1:15.5

signed this letter. Are you ready? Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,

1:24.9

Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,

1:32.8

South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming. Did anything stand out to you

1:40.0

about the list of states that I just read off to you there? Yeah, you went from Idaho to Maryland.

1:44.2

Yeah, I did. What's what's what's important about this? There's a state that you should have

1:48.6

mentioned. Oh, who is that? Indiana. Oh, it's right. The governor of Indiana is not on this

1:53.7

letter. Tony asked the question today. You will very likely not get a response from

1:58.4

Holcomb's people because that would not serve Hoosier as well. But how is it that the governor of

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