Biden cancels student loans for 150,000 more borrowers
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The latest tranche of debt forgiveness brings the number of people benefiting from student loan cancellations to more than 5 million, the president said.

Summary

President Biden announced student loan forgiveness for 150,000 additional borrowers, raising the total to over 5 million under his administration.

The latest beneficiaries include borrowers defrauded by schools, individuals with disabilities, and public service workers.

Biden emphasized his focus on expanding pre-existing forgiveness programs after his broad plan was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2023.

Conservatives and Trump argue the efforts overstep executive authority and unfairly shift costs.

Biden called the initiative a fulfillment of his promise to reduce financial barriers to education.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    2 days ago

    These programs exist but bureaucratic hurdles prevented people from actually having their loans forgiven.

    Biden bypassed all that and just forgave the loans.

    Biden didn’t to jack shit except to undo Betsy DeVos’s sabotage and administer the program in good faith. That’s not heroic; that’s the basic expectation of the job. It only looks heroic in comparison to the previous active sabotage.