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Biden to announce $9 billion more in student debt relief

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Biden to announce $9 billion more in student debt relief - Lemmy.world

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.

Oct 4, 2023 at 12:51pmWeb
Show threadBombOmOmOct 4, 2023
The standard debt relief stuff that every president administration does as it is required by law, but doesn’t bluster about.
Show threadRanvierOct 4, 2023

No, the Trump administration repeatedly blocked loan forgiveness that was already in law. Betsy Devos had to be brought to court multiple times and sometimes ignored court orders to pay for years. I wouldn’t trust a republican administration to even live up to the bare minimum of what’s required by law.

In addition to not fighting loan forgiveness laws already existing, the Biden administration has also broadened existing forgiveness rules to apply to more people people. They’re also crafting a new rule to again try to do what the supreme court blocked in broader forgiveness under a different law that also grants the executive branch power to modify loans to try and get around the ruling.

Show threadterwn43lpOct 4, 2023
cool, how about a living wage tho
Show threadMudfaceOct 4, 2023

Just print more money for that, I’m sure nothing bad will come of it.

Only happiness and equity ahead! All aboard!

Show threadthefartographerOct 4, 2023
Choo choo!!! It’s a gravy train! Cuz gravy will be the most fancy thing you’ll ever be able to afford again.
Show threadSharkwellingtonOct 4, 2023
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.
Show threadthefartographerOct 5, 2023
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…
Show threadEnigmaOct 4, 2023
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.
Show threadcosmic_slateOct 4, 2023

Unfortunately, Congress is the blocker. Biden can’t unilaterally declare a national minimum wage.

The Biden administration can’t do much but they did institute a $15 min wage for federal contractors, one of very few tools available.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Issues an Executive Order to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 for Federal Contractors | The White House

Today, President Biden is issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of workers who are working on federal contracts. These workers are critical to the functioning of the federal government: from cleaning professionals and maintenance workers who ensure federal employees have safe and clean places…

The White House
Show threadÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinOct 5, 2023
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
Show threadMetalJewSolidOct 5, 2023
I just wonder why Lemmy of all places.
Show threadÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkinOct 5, 2023
Large number of instances run by tankies. Lemmy basically became “left”-wing voat in a few of the less entry level instances.
Show threadMetalJewSolidOct 6, 2023
I always try to forget tankies exist. Makes sense, sadly.
Show threadpimento64Oct 4, 2023

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.

Show threadGhostalmediaOct 4, 2023
Fight to put a solid majority of Dems in Congress, and you’ll get that. President can’t constitutionally do that.
Show threadGlowstickOct 4, 2023
In 2020 I voted against Trump, in 2024 I’m voting for Biden.
Show threadnocturne213Oct 4, 2023
Is there someone better running for a change?
Show threadmuntedcrocodileOct 4, 2023
We need Bernard Sanders.
Show threadkreyOct 4, 2023
AFAIK he’s an independent (doesn’t have a party), which makes it difficult and dangerous to run for president, if not impossible. (I’m not from the US, just very interested in US politics, because the US is an important ally.)
Show thread【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】Oct 4, 2023
Bernie will never run for president as an independent. He has spoken and written at length about it.
Show threadnocturne213Oct 4, 2023
Independent is actually a political party in the United States. When he ran for President previously he ran as a Democrat.
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023
We can do better. Dr. Cornel West gets my vote.
Show threadblindbunnyOct 4, 2023
Richard Wolff gets mine.
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023
I’d happily vote for Dr. Wolff.
Show threadblindbunnyOct 4, 2023
As I’d happily vote Dr. Cornel West, comrade.
Show threadjeffwOct 4, 2023
People who say this are so fuckin bougie. Poor people can’t afford to throw away their votes, but middle class people fuck over the poor by doing so all the time.
Show threadcommieOct 5, 2023
it’s condescending to tell poor people who they can afford to vote for
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
Oh wow, an insult from Lenny’s biggest troll. All done making excuses for climate change, I guess?
Show threadcommieOct 5, 2023
I didn’t insult you, I gave you etiquette pointers. calling me a troll doesn’t change whether you’re being condescending.
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023

Condescending pointers from Lemmy’s biggest troll.

Sorry. Is that better? Enjoy ruining the planet

Show threadcommieOct 5, 2023

All done making excuses for climate change, I guess?

I’ve never done that.

Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
Bud, it’s been less than 24 hours since you blew up the thread with climate change aplogism for the industry that contributes more to climate change than any other on the planet lol
Show threadcommieOct 5, 2023

you blew up the thread with climate change aplogism

that’s a lie

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Poor people don’t really vote in the first place. And when they do they vote for rich people like those in the Democratic or Republican party.
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
Good way to agree that you’re an entitled dude lol. I know people who vote because their life depends on the GOP not further dismantling the welfare state
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Yet they continue to fail to defend it. They would be forced to if there was a strong left party using their leverage against the Dems.
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
lol you’re so divorced from reality, it’s kinda sad. Rich people without empathy sicken me
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
LMAO if I was rich I wouldn’t be involved in third party politics trying to force concession from the major two parties to alleviate poverty. Dems never gave a single fuck about poverty, and wealth inequality keeps getting worse when they’re in office.
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
Rich enough to be divorced from the reality of poverty and not understand the existential threat of the GOP. My god, people just straight up die in states without the Obamacare expansion.
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Once again I’m not rich, and I know the GOP well enough to know they infiltrated the Democratic party.
Show threadjeffwOct 5, 2023
You’re hilarious
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Says the person that thinks poor people shouldn’t organize as communists. You liberals failed them.
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 4, 2023

You aren’t actually serious right?

Cornell has bumbled his micro campaign into irrelevance within weeks of it starting. He’s shown no political savvy. He has run for and won no prior office. He’d be a disaster.

Fetterman, or literally any progressive who has won a federal election is a better option.

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023

Not true at all, still polling at 5% and will get at least that in the general.

Not surprised someone who thinks a walking corpse like Fetterman is a better option would be so ignorant.

Show threadKcs8v6Oct 4, 2023
Damn man, he didn’t say you were stupid, he just said he disagreed with you. Don’t need to sling mud for a different opinion.
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 4, 2023
He did insult someone who has likely accomplished 1000x more with his life, Dr. West. So no, I’m not the one slinging mud here.
Show threadassassin_aragornOct 5, 2023

Someone saying a public figure with little experience in politics is doing poorly at their third party run is not mudslinging.

This is one of the many reasons that third parties aren’t taken seriously. If party members clutch their pearls at critical observations of their candidate, they don’t stand a chance in hell.

Besides, Greens are anti science sensationalists. Or have they admitted fault yet on being anti nuclear, anti GMO, ambivalent on vaccines, and entertaining pseudoscience like wifi causing cancer? I don’t need Republican lite, grifting populists.

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023

Except he does have political experience and had been involved in many campaigns. You just won’t bother to learn or even read his campaign website.

The greens change like any other party depending on leadership. Go read their website and see that you’re mistaken on those views.

Show threadassassin_aragornOct 5, 2023

C.1. “The Green Party recognizes that there is no such thing as nuclear waste “disposal.” All six of the “low-level” nuclear waste dumps in the United States have leaked. There are no technological quick fixes that can effectively isolate nuclear waste from the biosphere for the duration of its hazardous life. Therefore, it is essential that generation of additional nuclear wastes be stopped.”

This is completely and utterly incorrect:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#:~:text=W….

We have had a technology since the 60s that can reprocess nuclear waste back into fuel. The screeching and fear mongering of anti science sensationalists has been a roadblock in developing these on large scale. The policy of the Green Party fucking literally leads to more nuclear waste than we would have otherwise.

That alone is enough for me to view the Green Party as a bunch of anti science idiots standing in the way of actual progress. But wait, there’s more!

“The Green Party supports a wide range of health care services, including conventional medicine, as well as the teaching, funding and practice of complementary, integrative and licensed alternative health care approaches.”

Fucking lmao. What a fucking joke.

These are the issues I brought up, and the platform on them only confirms to me that Greens should be voted against at every opportunity. It’s a blessing that they’re usually as ineffective as they are impotent.

So hey, thanks for sharing their website and platform. You’ve convinced me that they’re every bit as insane as I thought, and unless they make significant changes, I need to vote against them at every opportunity.

Breeder reactor - Wikipedia

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023

I have good news for you then:

https://www.cornelwest2024.com/

Dr. West announced he is running independent so go check out his website.

Once again, the Green party, like all parties, change with the leadership.

Cornel West for President 2024

Dr. Cornel West is running for truth and justice as President of the United States in 2024

Cornel West for President 2024
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 5, 2023

He did insult someone who has likely accomplished 1000x more with his life, Dr. West.

Bro Dr. Wests students don’t even want Dr. West to run.

West is being played the fool right now, and you along for the ride.

6-16-23 | Dr. West and the Green Party | Clickbaity Political Thirstrap | One Religious Zealot to An

YouTube
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Fake as fuck. Ben Dixon is a Democrat grifter you’re the one being fooled here.
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 5, 2023

Aight you just a troll.

👍

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
You’re the troll posting an hour podcast like anyone gave a fuck.
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 5, 2023

Bruh 😎 it’s literally people who have a direct personal relationship with West and who have been some of his most outspoken supporters showing how much of a damn fool West is for this campaign.

Bro you one dumb buggah. You should just keep your 👄 shut.

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Their argument is all that they would steal votes from Dems, which is a lie.
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 5, 2023

Bruh, 😎 like is said.

Just keep your dumb mouth shut and follow along.

Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
I’m not a submissive cuck like you are, so no.
Show threadTropicalDingdongOct 5, 2023
Bruh you a rightwing troll 🧌 just too stupid to know it
Show threadgoldenlocksOct 5, 2023
Ironic from the right wing Democratic party supporter