{"id":1965487,"date":"2023-07-06T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-group-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-supreme-court-student-debt-ruling\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:45:50","slug":"new-group-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-supreme-court-student-debt-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-group-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-supreme-court-student-debt-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"New group aims at vulnerable Republicans over SCOTUS student debt ruling."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fnew-group-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-supreme-court-student-debt-ruling%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=1965487&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--><h2>A New Organization Targets Vulnerable Republican Lawmakers in Student Debt Cancellation Effort<\/h2>\n<p>A new organization called Protect Borrowers Action is taking aim at vulnerable Republican lawmakers in states like New York and California. Launched in response to the Supreme Court&#8217;s blocking of President Joe Biden&#8217;s student debt forgiveness plan, the organization plans to mobilize in the districts of 13 Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Working people burdened with student debt are mad as hell over the hypocrisy of treating conservative billionaires one way and those striving for the middle class another,&#8221; said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in a press release. &#8220;Right-wing politicians need to hear loud and clear that when they put the interests of conservative billionaires above the financial welfare of their own constituents, they will be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gone are the days where politicians get a pass for being complicit in the student debt crisis plaguing our communities,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the release, the American Federation of Teachers is supporting the nonprofit group&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is focusing on lawmakers in California, Colorado, New York, Oregon, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. The 13 House lawmakers they are hoping to unseat are Reps. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Michelle Steel (R-CA), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), John James (R-MI), Don Bacon (R-NE), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Anthony D\u2019Esposito (R-NY), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Brandon Williams (R-NY), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), and Scott Perry (R-PA), who is notably chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to each representative regarding the challenge on student debt.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A spokesman for Chavez-DeRemer told the Washington Examiner in a statement, &#8220;While the congresswoman believes anyone who has taken out a loan in their name has an obligation to repay that loan, she also recognizes that our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-extend-pause-on-student-loan-payments-through-august\/\" title=\"White House to Extend Pause on Student Loan Payments Through August\">current student loan system<\/a> is failing students. That&#8217;s why one of the first bills she helped lead was the bipartisan Student Loan Disclosure Transparency Act, which would help borrowers more easily understand the true overall cost of their education. She has also urged Education Secretary Cardona to make federal Pell grants more widely available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-group-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-supreme-court-student-debt-ruling\/\" title=\"New group aims at vulnerable Republicans over SCOTUS student debt ruling.\">students pursuing technical careers<\/a>. She remains committed to helping students and addressing the soaring cost of education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Cook Political Report rates the seats of Calvert, Steel, Boebert, James, and Bacon as &#8220;lean Republican,&#8221; while Kiley, LaLota, and Perry&#8217;s districts are rated likely Republican. However, the seats of D&#8217;Esposito, Lawler, Williams, and Chavez-DeRemer are in a more vulnerable position, with their seats rated as Republican toss-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Americans currently owe $1.75 trillion in federal and private student loans, with an average debt of $28,950 per borrower, according to data compiled by Forbes. Biden&#8217;s relief plan would have forgiven debt for individuals making less than $125,000 and married couples making less than $250,000. Pell grant recipients would have been eligible for $20,000 forgiven from their federal loans, while nonrecipients would have been eligible for $10,000 forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>PBA Executive Director Mike Pierce shared with the Washington Examiner that the organization&#8217;s team is made up of leaders from the Student Borrower Protection Center who have &#8220;worked for years to bring the issue to the forefront and help shape the administration\u2019s response to the student debt crisis.&#8221; They further led the outside legal defense for Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-increasingly-distancing-themselves-from-biden-ahead-of-midterms\/\" title=\"Democrats Increasingly Distancing Themselves From Biden Ahead of Midterms\">student debt forgiveness program<\/a> and coordinated several amicus briefs defending it.<\/p>\n<h3>BIDENOMICS: HOW THE STOCK MARKET HAS FARED UNDER BIDEN&#8217;S PRESIDENCY<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new group, Protect Borrowers Action, is targeting vulnerable Republican lawmakers in states like New York and California. Launched in response to the Supreme Court&#8217;s block on President Biden&#8217;s student debt forgiveness plan, the organization aims to mobilize in the districts of 13 GOP members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1965487","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}