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In reply to the discussion: Did Rep. Tlaib [View all]Celerity
(43,328 posts)93. No. He did not answer the question at that presser, and there still is the ambiguity I laid out.
from your reply:
Biden has supported $10,000 of student loan forgiveness, but he has insisted he doesnt have legal authority to cancel everyones student loan debt.
The Senators and House Reps are not talking about ALL student debt. The ambiguity was laid out in my initial reply.
here
Joe Biden, then the leading moderate candidate, began getting questions about debt cancellation, and, as he often did during the campaign, he forged a compromise between the left and the center. In April, 2020, Biden pledged to immediately cancel a minimum of $10,000 of student debt per person. He didnt specify whether he would do this through executive action or by urging Congress to pass a bill, though the word immediately seemed to imply the former. During his first month as President, at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Biden was asked how much debt he planned to cancel. He spoke for several minutes, mentioning that one of his sons had graduated from Georgetown and Yale Law School a hundred and forty-two thousand dollars in debt but that he had paid it off, in part, by working for a parking service down in Washington. (The same son, of course, also earned astronomical sums of money while working for a hedge fund, lobbying for various companies, and serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural-gas company, but Biden happened to omit those details.) Finally, he concluded, Im prepared to write off the ten thousand dollars debt, but not fifty. Because I dont think I have the authority to do it by a sign of the pen. He appeared to be suggesting that the President has the power to cancel debt up to but not beyond some unspecified amount of moneyan interpretation that is, at best, legally ambiguous.
Also, why has he not released the memo as to what authority he has? He asked his own Education Department to do so around a year ago and as Schumer and Warren pointed out (shown in an article in my reply) in their letter that the Department of Education has had its memo for nearly 10 months (11 months now as that article was 5 weeks ago).
more (from the letter)
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/591435-over-80-lawmakers-urge-biden-to-release-memo-outlining-his-authority-on
Publicly releasing the memo outlining your executive authority on canceling student debt and broadly doing so is crucial to making a meaningful difference in the lives of current students, borrowers, and their families, the lawmakers wrote in the letter. It has been widely reported that the Department of Education has had this memo since April 5, 2021 after being directed to draft it.
Here is the letter itself, it is public domain so I can legally post it in toto
(and LOTS of heavy-hitters here showing that your claims are incorrect, as if they were correct these Senators and House members would not be writing and/or signing this letter with its statements):
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Final%20-%20Letter%20to%20Biden%20Cancelling%20Student%20Loan%20Debt.pdf
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She kept saying there should be a Working Families Party majority, elect WFP candidates,
betsuni
Mar 2022
#6
Used to be middle/working class when talking about inequality and now it's only working class.
betsuni
Mar 2022
#25
I really don't believe in attacking our progressives who are working hard for us.
Samrob
Mar 2022
#10
Tlaib said: "Despite some sensational coverage, it's simple: I'm giving a speech about supporting
Celerity
Mar 2022
#11
Pardon me, but I think it is wrong on both sides. I never said I agree with everything
Samrob
Mar 2022
#33
The Infrastructure Bill is an important achievement and was highlighted
question everything
Mar 2022
#35
I'm a Progressive, I want and believe in almost all progressive ideas but I worry
walkingman
Mar 2022
#12
They have a list of executive orders they think Biden can do, but I'm not confident
betsuni
Mar 2022
#29
There is nothing confusing about what candidate Biden said and then what President Biden affirmed
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#91
No. He did not answer the question at that presser, and there still is the ambiguity I laid out.
Celerity
Mar 2022
#93
Your New Yorker link goes to the very editorial written by candidate Biden that I cited in my post.
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#94
That memo needs to be released as they have been sitting on it for 11 months (or longer)
Celerity
Mar 2022
#105
Chuck Schumer tweets WEEKLY that Pres. Biden should use his executive authority
bigtree
Mar 2022
#40
so to your criticism, our Majority leader, who is doing the exact thing, is hurting the party?
bigtree
Mar 2022
#44
they haven't attacked anyone in advocating for the president to use his executive powers
bigtree
Mar 2022
#58
Whatever you want to call it, it wrongly demoralizes and depresses young voters.
W_HAMILTON
Mar 2022
#63
Biden has cancelled $15 billion of student loans during his first year in office.
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#92
And the point is...? Is the argument that President Biden should forgive $1,500,000,000 in debt owed
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#100
It takes away a priority issue for progressives that a challenger from his left could attack him on.
W_HAMILTON
Mar 2022
#62
Just to be clear, are you opposed to even the $10K in Student loan debt reduction IF Congress
Celerity
Mar 2022
#97
I think it is still very much up in the air whether he can or cannot use an EO. He has been
Celerity
Mar 2022
#99
I would imagine that it most certainly could be included in a reconciliation bill...
W_HAMILTON
Mar 2022
#107
I do not see these attacks, I see a tonne of powerful Dems asking for the memo to be released, and
Celerity
Mar 2022
#108
It contained a list of things the Working Families Party wants Democratic President Biden to do
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#90
'I didn't watch the speech, but here's a smear from someone who didn't watch the speech either'
bigtree
Mar 2022
#43
The Problem Solvers have a guy who was running bus trips to the Insurrection
BradAllison
Mar 2022
#54
I was very pleased with Colin Allred's speech on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
#68
Why hasn't Biden relased the memo he ordered the DOE to write as to whether he has the authority
Celerity
Mar 2022
#110
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Pres. Biden does not have the power to forgive student loan debt
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
#112
She is not the sole determiner of that. You are ignoring the far greater number of Dem Senators
Celerity
Mar 2022
#113
Biden talked multiple times about across-the-board student debt loan relief (not narrowly targeted).
Celerity
Mar 2022
#118
None of the sources cited above supported the claim that Joe Biden promised to use executive power
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
#122
I am curious, what are the plans for the people who have paid off their debt.
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
#123
What would make anyone think that Kantrowitz is a "private student loan shill"?
lapucelle
Mar 2022
#124
I keep seeing demands that Joe Biden cancel student loans when we need legislation to do this
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
#126