Federal student loan debt

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Biden administration signals a decision on student loan forgiveness ... (CNBC)

Over the last week, the Biden administration has dropped more hints that its decision on debt forgiveness could come before the midterms.

Two-thirds of federal student debt is held by women. A recent study found that surveyed student loan borrowers reported a 16% likelihood of quickly missing a payment if the payment pause ended. The country’s outstanding education debt balance exceeded $1.7 trillion and posed a larger burden to households than credit card or auto debt.

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Biden Mulling Canceling Student Loans: Here's Who May Qualify (Newsweek)

Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced it was immediately relieving federal student debt for 40000 borrowers.

"What I would tell you is that not a single person in this country has paid a dime on student — federal student loans since the president took office," Psaki said. Earlier this month, Biden once again extended this pause to August 31. And he said, 'OK, good to know,'" Cardenas told CBS News.

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President Biden appears set to cancel significant amount of federal ... (Yall Politics)

During the 2020 election, President Joe Biden (D) repeatedly said he was open to forgiving $10,000 per borrower in federal student loan debt.

“The student loan machine is predatory. The Biden Administration has continued the pause on student loan repayments began at the beginning of the pandemic, extending the latest restart date in May to September 2022. “But this is a fundamentally unfair and unwise way for the Biden administration to do it.”

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No, Biden Is Not Canceling Most Student Loan Debt (Forbes)

Student loan relief is scheduled to end August 31, 2022. Absent any extension, student loan payments will restart September 1. Biden could cancel student loans ...

That’s why it’s essential to know your best options for student loan repayment. Student loan relief is scheduled to end August 31, 2022. Reporting from CBS News yesterday claimed that Biden told a group of lawmakers that he was looking at different options to “forgive most, if not all, student loan debt.” As you can imagine, the bold statement that Biden, a moderate Democrat, was considering total student loan cancellation may have led to temporary jubilation among student loan borrowers and advocates for broad student loan forgiveness.

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Biden's student loan dilemma (The New York Times)

The president made a campaign promise to erase billions in college loans, but his economic advisers are split on whether he should follow through.

Given the kind of information that lawmakers have access to, that may be the only way to prevent them from acting on what they learn, Gellasch argues: “It makes sense to eliminate that temptation.” If the deal is still awaiting regulatory approval, Musk and Twitter would have another six months to close it. To prevent trading on insider information, the STOCK Act of 2012 requires members of Congress and top executive branch officials to disclose their financial transactions regularly. According to the document, if Twitter loses all or most of its users before the deal “by reason of the identity of Elon Musk,” there is no backing out. They’re going to terminate the agreement if he goes a little bit too close to the line?” (As the saying goes: You break it, you buy it.) Indeed, the day Twitter announced its agreement with Musk, it saw a lot of user churn. Twitter would have to pay Musk $1 billion if it enters into a deal with another bidder, and Musk would have to pay Twitter the same if financing for the deal falls apart. Disparage is “in the eye of the beholder,” Eleazer Klein of the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel, told DealBook. “The only way that’s going to really play out is if someone wants to go to court and fight over it,” he said. Bulgaria gets around 90 percent of its gas from Russia, but Greece said it would step in with shipments to its neighbor. The move upends longtime assurances by Moscow. Russia has long promised it could be a reliable supplier of energy no matter the political climate. Some fear it could add to inflation — student debt relief could make it harder to slow spending and bring consumer prices under control — but most economists say the economic effects would be modest. Executive action is the only path to debt forgiveness.

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Biden Considers Forgiving Some Federal Student Loan Debt (Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)

At a Monday meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, President Biden said that he is looking into ways to forgive an unspecified yet hefty amount of ...

And he said, 'Okay, good to know.'" Officials in the Biden administration have also said they are looking into whether the president has the authority to forgive federal student loan debt through executive action. Caucus participants told CBS News about this exchange.

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Biden has signaled he may be open to forgiving some federal ... (Yahoo News)

Some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus described a meeting in which President Joe Biden seemed open to forgiving some student-loan debt.

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Biden considering broader student loan debt forgiveness (syracuse.com)

Washington — President Joe Biden is considering a broader push to forgive federal student loan debt, according to multiple news reports.

Deadlines for payments to restart have been extended repeatedly. Democrats don’t have the votes in Congress to pass a relief bill and so advocates have been urging Biden to act through an executive order. And Biden has not yet fulfilled his campaign pledge to cancel $10,000 in debt for every borrower.

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Republicans target pause on student loan payments (CBS News)

In a bill introduced Wednesday, a group of five GOP lawmakers moved to end President Biden's ability to keep extending the federal student loan payment pause.

The president asked officials to look into his legal authority to cancel student loan debt last year, but a decision has not been announced. Some 43 million Americans have more than $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. With the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act, the Republican senators are looking to end President Biden's suspension of federal student loan payments. "Taxpayers and working families should not be responsible for continuing to bear the costs associated with this suspension of repayment." The Biden administration this month extended the pause on repayment that began at the beginning of the pandemic to August 31. In total, it's estimated to have saved borrowers $195 billion since March 2020, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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