White House Reveals How Biden’s Massive Student Loan Handout Will Be Paid For

White House officials have suggested that President Joe Biden’s student loan debt cancellation program will be fully funded by a reduction in the federal deficit, potentially further exacerbating the government’s spending revenue.

Biden announced last month that he would cancel as much as $20,000 in federal student debt for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for other borrowers making less than $125,000 annually.

The move has sparked concern among Republican lawmakers and other experts, who fear it could raise national debt at a time when inflation has soared across the country.

Speaking about the debt cancellation program at a press briefing on Aug. 26, Bharat Ramamurti, deputy director of the National Economic Council, said: “It is paid for and far more by the amount of deficit reduction that we’re already on track for this year.”

“We’re on track for $1.7 trillion in deficit reduction this year. That means, practically speaking, compared to the previous year, 1.7 trillion more dollars are coming into the Treasury than are going out. And we’re using a portion of that—a very small portion of it—to provide relief to middle-class families, consistent with the president’s plan.”

“So, yes, we consider it fully paid for,” Ramamurti added.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the federal deficit stood at $727 billion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year 2022, down from the $2.5 trillion deficit over the same period in the financial year 2021.

That is largely down to the Biden administration’s decision to phase out COVID-19-related spending programs that were initially put in place at the start of the pandemic.

However, the deficit is still by no means small and in July alone, it ran at $212 billion, according to the CBO, with the government receiving $272 billion in receipts but splashing out $484 billion on spending, which marks the second largest single month deficit this fiscal year.

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