President Biden announced Friday that his administration is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 borrowers, marking the latest round of debt cancellation since the Supreme Court voided the president’s student loan forgiveness program.

Mr. Biden said that of the borrowers who can receive relief, nearly 44,000 are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others who are eligible for forgiveness after working 10 years of public service. Almost 30,000 of those who will have their debt wiped clean have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years, but did not get the relief they earned through income-based plans, the president said.

With the latest round of student loan forgiveness, more than 3.7 million Americans have had their debt erased under the Biden administration, Mr. Biden said.

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    Good thing we elected a career politician who said his decades of Senate experience meant he could get Republicans in the Senate and house to vote for progressive legislation…

    Oh, that’s right…

    I forgot Dems had the Senate, House, and presidency for 2 years…

    But that highly experienced career politician told us trying to change even a single politicians mind (even if they were in his own party) was an impossible task so he wouldn’t even try.

    Welp, at least we’re not running him again since the whole reason he said he was the man for the job turned out to be something he was lying about…

    That would seem like a terrible plan

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      he could get Republicans in the Senate and house to vote for progressive legislation

      He said he could work with Republicans to get bipartisan legislation passed. And he has, including the Electoral Count Reform Act.

      In addition to bipartisan legislation he has also passed progressive legislation, but as everyone expected that was along party lines.

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      Oh, but what more could you ask of him? He tried once and the Supreme Court said no, and that’s all he can do. Sure, when Trump wanted to ban Muslims from the country and the Supreme Court told him no he just changed one or two small details and issued the same order again and again and again until the Court gave up, but Biden couldn’t possibly do something like that here because it wouldn’t be very polite. You don’t want a rude president, do you?

      /s

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        LOL, That’s quite literally what Biden is doing now in bits in pieces while keeping SCotUS out of it entirely.

        more than 3.7 million Americans have had their debt erased under the Biden administration, Mr. Biden said.

        But no, you want what you want & you want it NOW.

        I forgot Dems had the Senate, House, and presidency for 2 years…

        Either you are lying & hoping no one would notice or you are even more politically ignorant than I first realized.

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          That’s quite literally what Biden is doing now [except for how he isn’t doing it at all and is instead occasionally dropping much smaller scale things that are mostly just implementing things that got passed years ago and hoping everyone forgets that he promised to help everyone]

          lol indeed