Briahna Joy Gray, the host of the Bad Faith podcast, said President Biden is “playing the fool” when it comes to his ability to cancel student debt.
Democrats have been pressing Biden to use his executive authority to cancel student loan debt, a promise Biden made during his presidential campaign.
“[Biden] promised $10,000 of student debt. This is not even the $50,000 or the full debt cancellation that Bernie Sanders was talking about. He ran on this as a campaign promise and now, seemingly, playing the fool by pretending that he doesn’t know he has the authority to do so,” Gray said on Hill.TV’s “Rising” Wednesday.
Student loan payments have been on hold since the start of the pandemic to alleviate some of the economic burden borrowers faced when swaths of the economy were shut down due to the coronavirus.
However, payments are set to begin again in February 2022, the year midterm elections will be held.
Gray warned a failure to provide any student loan relief will hurt Democrats in the elections.
Gray said Democrats failed to deliver on education in the Build Back Better plan, cutting free community college from the bill and scaling back an initial funding proposal for historically black colleges and universities.
“If we are talking about parents that are concerned about their children being able to compete in an increasingly Hunger Games style world then investments in education are exactly the kind of thing that are going to drive turnout,” Gray said.
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