{"id":1005127,"date":"2021-11-12T21:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1005127"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:28:48","slug":"chuck-schumer-great-day-for-biden-to-cancel-student-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-schumer-great-day-for-biden-to-cancel-student-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer: Great Day for Biden to &#039;Cancel Student Debt&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchuck-schumer-great-day-for-biden-to-cancel-student-debt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1005127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chuck-Schumer-Celebrating-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to cancel student debt \u2014 a priority that has seemingly fallen to the wayside in the first year of Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot thinking today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt,\u201d Schumer said as part of his frequent reminders for the cause on social media over the months:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5616438356164\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not thinking today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CancelStudentDebt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CancelStudentDebt<\/a>. \ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1459189090704896009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.212765957447\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By canceling student debt, President Biden would give our economy an immediate boost &amp; help close the racial wealth gap for Black &amp; Brown borrowers<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAlexPadilla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenAlexPadilla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMurguia_Unidos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JMurguia_Unidos<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wearemitu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wearemitu<\/a> to push <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CancelStudentDebt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CancelStudentDebt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZyvZ3D00qw\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZyvZ3D00qw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1458235703226249218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.32298136646\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Student debt has become not a ladder up, but an anchor weighing Americans down\u2014making it harder to start a family, buy a home, and live with financial independence.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden can <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CancelStudentDebt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CancelStudentDebt<\/a> and provide relief to the millions of borrowers drowning in debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1440465033742278664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.1111111111111\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CancelStudentDebt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CancelStudentDebt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1355251015017242631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Throughout the year, Democrats have begged Biden to take action on student loan debt, asking him to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/08\/democrats-call-biden-cancel-student-loan-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancel<\/a> a large portion \u2014 up to $50,000. However, Biden has largely balked at the prospect, stating during a townhall in February that he \u201cwill not make that happen.\u201d [per student] Instead, he said he is \u201cprepared to write off the $10,000 debt, but not $50,000\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.728301886792\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the Biden town hall on CNN last night, this questioner asked about canceling $50,000 worth of student debt: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will you do to make that happen?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI will not make that happen.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7auUT2YQZ\">pic.twitter.com\/Y7auUT2YQZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1362017138710630403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/18\/aoc-presses-biden-go-big-student-debt-relief-champion-policy-people-can-feel-asap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received<\/a> significant backlash for his answer, prompting the White House to clarify his remarks shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was reiterating his previous stated position, which is that he doesn\u2019t favor $50,000 in student loan relief without limitations,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at the time, adding that Biden:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>\u2026will ask them [the Department of Justice] to conduct a legal review of his authority to act on executive action in conjunction with a policy review from his Domestic Policy Council on how executive action debt relief, if any, should be targeted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, months later, nothing has been done on this front. While Biden extended the pause on federal student loan payments initiated by former President Trump last year, student loan payments are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/announcements-events\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resume<\/a> in January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to cancel student debt \u2014 a priority that has seemingly fallen to the wayside in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}