{"id":1740059,"date":"2022-11-15T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740059"},"modified":"2022-11-15T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:49:07","slug":"white-house-brags-about-stalled-student-debt-program-that-has-awarded-0-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-brags-about-stalled-student-debt-program-that-has-awarded-0-to-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Brags About Stalled Student Debt Program That Has Awarded $0 to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwhite-house-brags-about-stalled-student-debt-program-that-has-awarded-0-to-americans%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=1740059&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--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">After Ticketmaster website crashed on Tuesday, Ron Klain touted functionality of admin&#8217;s loan forgiveness portal<\/p>\n<p>    White House chief of staff Ron Klain \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/benjamin-wilson\/\" title=\"Posts by Benjamin Wilson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Benjamin Wilson<\/a> \u2022 November 15, 2022 4:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>When Ticketmaster&#8217;s website crashed on Tuesday over Taylor Swift&#8217;s concert presale, White House chief of staff Ron Klain bragged that the Biden administration&#8217;s student loan forgiveness portal processed eight million applications without crashing. He failed to mention the program is stalled and has delivered no money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over my years in the public and private sectors, I&#8217;ve had people tell me: If only the government could work like business,&#8221; Klain tweeted. &#8220;Well, the team at [the Department of Education] and [the U.S. Digital Service] built a Student Loan Forgiveness portal that processed 8 MILLION applications in the first 30 hours without a crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Over my years in the public and private sectors, I&#8217;ve had people tell me: If only the government could work like business.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the team at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usedgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USEdgov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USDS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USDS<\/a> built a Student Loan Forgiveness portal that processed 8 MILLION applications in the first 30 hours without a crash. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VaaoTMVycg\">https:\/\/t.co\/VaaoTMVycg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHCOS\/status\/1592567836475785217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The administration, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-stops-taking-student-debt-applications-after-judge-blocks-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped taking student loan forgiveness applications<\/a> last week after a federal judge halted the program.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled Nov. 10 that the program is beyond the president&#8217;s authority. &#8220;The Program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress&#8217;s legislative power and must be vacated,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman added that &#8220;we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The program would cost $400 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ticketmaster&#8217;s website crashed on Tuesday over Taylor Swift&#8217;s concert presale, White House chief of staff Ron Klain bragged that the Biden administration&#8217;s student loan forgiveness portal processed eight million applications without crashing. He failed to mention the program is stalled and has delivered no money.<br \/>\nThe post White House Brags About Stalled Student Debt Program That Has Awarded $0 to Americans appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1740062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740059","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\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}