Republican lawmakers launch an effort to block student-loan borrowers from enrolling in Biden's new plan intended to lower monthly payments
Republican lawmakers launch an effort to block student-loan borrowers from enrolling in Biden's new plan intended to lower monthly payments
Senate and House GOP lawmakers introduced bills to block the SAVE income-driven repayment plan ahead of the resumption of student-loan payments.
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GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to overturn Biden's new SAVE income-driven repayment plan.
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The lawmakers say the new plan is an overreach of authority and will cost taxpayers.
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Borrowers can now apply for the SAVE plan before bills become due next month.
the conservative platform:
-- corporate welfare: dandy
-- human being support: go fuck yourselfThe lawmakers say the new plan is an overreach of authority and will cost taxpayers.
And yet they look the other way when their GOP buddies Abbott and DeSantis overreach and trigger lawsuits that are defended with taxpayer funds.
Oh this has nothing to do with taxpayer funds, they’d spend the money on tax cuts for themselves, if they could. This is about denying Biden from getting another win.
What about-ism is such a low effort response.
I don't see the whataboutism here. It's andalsoism, which we could engage in endlessly with the Republicans, who have become the party of taking things away from other people.
Remember that people still vote for these ghouls.
The more they threaten to take away, the more people get excited, even though they lose out
How does student loan forgiveness or payment plans cost taxpayers anything?
Because conservatives said so! Now, stop acting so uppity and get back to work at one of your minimum wage jobs before supply-side Jesus gets mad again!
This is a brilliant way to win the next generation! I swear, the GOP is being directed by Month Python's Flying Circus. It's like the ministry of silly walks.
They're probably not shooting for the next generation, they know that's lost. They're shooting for the ones after, when they've stripped the education system dry and can more easily exploit the naivety while their own kids take over. It's generational planning.
They don't have to if they entrench themselves as the dictatorship by law.
I didn’t sign up yet, because I’m not set to recertify for like a while yet, and I’m trying to avoid paying for a degree doing me no good.
I’m currently on a $0 repayment, and have been for a long while, but I’ve been making a regular paycheck for the last year, and if I had needed to recertify since 2020 I’d have had to pay.
I don’t know if it would impact my repayment/certification to apply, but I won’t be employed soon anyway, so I’m putting it off as long as I can.
But I also don’t know that it’s ever going to be implemented anyway.. republicans seem really into screwing us poors. I’ll just wait.
I went ahead and switched to the SAVE plan. You can actually go through the application process and near the end of it, they'll provide you a list of plan options and how much you'll have to pay, if any. If you would have to start paying, you can quit the application and no changes will be made to your current plan / certification and at least you won't get "sticker shock" down the road and can start planning.
Is that lex Luther before he lost his hair?
If you are referring to the pic, no, that is one of my fine senators. /s
you should tell him he spent too much on his hair implants
They can force a vote in the House but they can't make it law without quite a few Democrats so this isn't actually happening.
Agreed. This is political theater, not actual policy.