U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.
Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.
The president's announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.
I actually think 50-60 would be ideal. Obama, in his mid-40s, was a relative political newcomer in 2008 (compared to other candidates, at least, not like Trump-style) and he made many missteps as a result. The ACA, for example, could have been far more broad. They didn’t need massive moderate support.
Of course, some people enter politics pretty young. By the time Maxwell Frost hits 45, for example, he might have 20 years in federal politics. It’s rare that we find people with so much experience at that age though.
I think the level of Republican stonewalling was historic for Obama, so to some degree it would've happened anyway, but I think he would've wisened up faster if he had more experience. It's a double edged sword.
The ACA, for example, could have been far more broad. They didn’t need massive moderate support.
The ACA passed by one vote after they stripped it down to make it more appealing.
On December 23, the Senate voted 60–39 to end debate on the bill: a cloture vote to end the filibuster.[182] The bill then passed, also 60–39, on December 24, 2009, with all Democrats and two independents voting for it, and all Republicans against (except Jim Bunning, who did not vote).[
It's not brainwashing when the voting system is specifically set up to give an advantage to the dominant parties and to suppress every minority party. There are valid reasons to be skeptical that a 3rd party could ever win without a reformed voting system.
They also can't win if everybody says "don't vote for them because they can't win" so I will carry on voting for them and spreading the word that we all should.
And it's always settled to two major parties, in spite of that. The fact that we've had several parties over the country's history but it almost always comes down to two major parties should tell you something.
Fortunately, there may be an opening soon, with Republicans in disarray.
They can't win because they don't even play the game correctly. You can't just get up and give grand speeches about radically different ideas, with little to no strategy or evidence to back it up and expect to jump into literally the most powerful job in the world. It's utter nonsense. Unless you're a Billionaire that wants to buy your way in.
You can tell none of the third parties are serious because all their attention goes to the presidency.
They have no consideration for what would happen if they actually won. No representatives in the House, no senators, no state governors even. They'd be lame ducks the instant they were sworn in.
They should be targeting Congressional seats and state governorships. Instead, they're just grifting money.
You're underestimating Congress. It still plays a lot of roles, especially the Senate. It just isn't obvious because the president's party typically has control at the beginning of their terms.
This would probably work for Greens except that they don't have people running for those positions.
It's not that simple. Several factors come into play.
The biggest systemic issues are the first past the post voting system and the electoral college (for president).
People who have even a simplistic understanding of how the system works and the track record for third parties know the odds are low. Those who are pragmatic will vote for Dem or Rep. In the current polarized political climate people are less likely to take a chance with a third party vote.
Also, the press mostly ignores candidates of other parties. So they aren't as well known and thus can't get popular enough to get traction.
If you really want more parties to have a chance, push for alternate voting systems like ranked choice, cumulative, etc.
I have no idea what elements of libertarianism you like, nor why a ex-Republican for that roll in your mind, but he would have been a bad Republican, but not Trump. He had no chance so it really didn’t matter
I was approved for relief but thanks to fucking Supreme Court and weak as Biden I am forced to pay student loans. Fuck him. He should of canceled all the debt.
He could've issued executive order to cancel all student debt. He didn't he sat on his hands and shurg said fuck you to millions of young people and allow the corrupt Supreme Court overule him.
He could’ve issued executive order to cancel all student debt
This isn't universally true, and he's said as much in many statements. Unlike the last administration, he's having his lawyers review what can and can't be done knowing that the courts are going to challenge everything he does and given their current slant won't be kind to anything he does.
This is democrats since I've been alive. Reagan and Bush create wars and economic disasters, Clinton turns it around. Repeat for Bush Jr and then Obama who had to turn us around from the financial crisis beta. Trump comes in, completely mismanages a pandemic even though there was a literal playbook left for him, tanks the economy, and now Biden has to get it back on track and by objective measures is doing so. And then we have the continued pain points of things like high grocery prices that we're all still really feeling that are again the result of Trump's disastrous handling of the pandemic which basically gave these people an excuse to jack prices up as high as they wanted. Note how very few things have rebounded to pre-pandemic, and corp profits are at an all time high.
There is legitimately not an economic argument to be made for republicans unless you're a billionaire.
Not to mention intentionally creating legislation that falls apart financially after they assume a Democrat will come into power that they can immediately blame.