Biden's total student debt relief passes $183 billion, after he forgives another 150,000 borrowers

[BadGimp]

Published Mon, Jan 13 202511:30 AM ESTUpdated 11 Min Ago

In his final days in office, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would forgive student debt for more than 150,000 borrowers.

That relief includes nearly 85,000 people who attended schools that “cheated and defrauded their students,” 61,000 borrowers with a total and permanent disability and another 6,100 public service workers, Biden said in a statement.

“Since Day One of my Administration, I promised to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity, and I’m proud to say we have forgiven more student loan debt than any other administration in history,” Biden said.

Since Biden took office, he has forgiven debt for more than 5 million federal student loan borrowers, totaling $183.6 billion in relief.


As a result of actions like it's easy for Americans to see that Biden and the Democrats are working to improve the lives of working-class Americans.

[maxsolomon]

1. Not good enough for voters (or borrowers?) to notice, apparently.

5 million Americans got debt forgiven, Harris came up 6 million short of Biden's 2020 total.

[Scubamatt]

3. The best programs

mean nothing unless: 1) You are constantly trumpeting your success; and 2) You are constantly blunting/rebutting the flood of disinformation coming daily out of right wing and corporate "new" sources.

[maxsolomon]

4. I don't know that #2 is possible anymore.

Or that the voters that sat on their hands this time even consume RW Media.

[DeepWinter]

2. The problem is

"... would forgive student debt for more than 150,000 borrowers"

There are 175,000 new college students every year. The debt keeps being added faster than paid off or forgiven.