Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Took to Twitter to continue the pressure campaign on President Biden to have the debt raised to $ 50,000, but she may not have been prepared for some of the answers.
“I want to hear from you,” she wrote on Twitter. “How would you and your family help a $ 50,000 student debt cancellation?”
Some of the responses to Twitter on Jayapal’s tweet question what can be done for those who have already paid off their loans. “Can I have the $ 50,000 I already paid back into my bank account?” wrote one user.
“We are finding out what people should give to working class who did not go to university to avoid it and feel that they are not paying anything with the bill,” wrote another user.
DEMS ARE ORDERED TO CANCEL UP TO $ 50K STUDENT LOAN DEBT AT EXECUTIVE ACTION
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley urged the president two weeks ago to use his executive power to forgive guilt. In a resolution, they urged Biden to use “existing legal authorities” under the Higher Education Act of 1965. The resolution also “encouraged” Biden to use executive power under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which would prevent administrative debt cancellation leads to a tax liability for borrowers.
Biden indicated on Tuesday that writing off $ 50,000 in student debt was not something he said could be done “with presidential action,” but said he was willing to eliminate $ 10,000 for students.
Biden’s comments follow previous statements by the White House in which he said he was investigating the power of the president to act unilaterally on this, reports The Hill.
COMMANDED SEPARATE SELF OF CALL TO DEBT $ 50G IN DEBT STUDENT LOAN
He later told CNN during a town hall that he would not let that happen.
More than 42 million Americans now hold federal student loans totaling $ 1.5 billion, according to the Department of Education.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Wrote a headline on FoxNews.com on Tuesday, saying Republicans “should have a better answer to calls for debt forgiveness.”
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One of its arguments is that Congress and the administration “should do a better job of informing lenders about what options there are for making affordable payments, while simplifying the options for eliminating confusion.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.