U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.

Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.

The president’s announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.

    • @Enigma
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      839 months ago

      That’s not his job, that’s congress’s job. He can propose a bill, but wtf is the point when the house doesn’t even have a speaker and the current majority hasn’t brought a single bill to the floor for a vote.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      479 months ago

      Fight to put a solid majority of Dems in Congress, and you’ll get that. President can’t constitutionally do that.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        You can tell these complaints are straight outta Beijing and Moscow because they literally cannot comprehend that the state leader can’t just do shit unilaterally

    • @[email protected]
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      429 months ago

      I got fined by the city for violating the ordinance against having my trash bin sitting in the street. THANKS SLEEPY JOE!

      —You

      In case you weren’t aware, the President isn’t allowed to draft and ratify his own legislation.

      • @[email protected]
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        -219 months ago

        Choo choo!!! It’s a gravy train! Cuz gravy will be the most fancy thing you’ll ever be able to afford again.

        • @[email protected]
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          159 months ago

          We are talking about a living wage. As in, working a job gives you enough money to survive. Are things really that fucked up that people making enough to live off of would wreck the economy? Let it burn, then.

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            I think the person I replied to edited their comment. I could have sworn they said something about a train. Good God my reply makes me look like a monster…