President Biden goes Dark Brandon on MAGA-Republican hypocrisy around student debt

Walter Einenkel

Daily Kos Staff

Friday October 21, 2022 · 5:41 PM PDT

2022/10/21 · 17:41

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President Joe Biden was in Delaware on Friday, where he gave a speech talking about the Democratic administration’s successes in creating a student loan forgiveness program while also lowering the country’s deficit. While worrying about the deficit is a bogus conservative metaphysical occupation, Biden’s mention of it was in contrast to the single thing the GOP did for “Americans”: cut taxes for the wealthiest among us.

Biden has been a on roll over the past few months, going after Republican leadership more directly for their abject hypocrisy over just about everything. Whether or not Biden can focus the electorate to come out and vote for Democratic candidates and incumbents across the country in the next few weeks remains to be seen, but he has been doing a lot better over the past few weeks, with more focused statements and messaging on what Democrats have done and what Republicans continue to never do—help the American people.

One section of Biden’s speech went to the heart of the matter: Student loan forgiveness is successful, with almost 22 million people applying right out of the gate. It is popular, and a better use of our country’s money than anything the GOP has ever had to offer.

Here’s Biden talking about the launch of the online application and how in the short time the website has been live, just under 9 million people have signed up.

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And then President Biden went in on the disingenuous Republican criticisms:

“I will never apologize for helping working- and middle-class Americans as they recover from the pandemic, especially not to the same Republican officials who voted for a $2 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy Americans and the biggest corporations that wasn't paid for, and racked up our deficit. I don't want to hear it from MAGA Republicans, officials who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans forgiven, who now are attacking, attacking me for helping working-class and middle-class Americans.

My team at the White House posted a video, a video of these folks online. You should check it out. Marjorie Taylor Greene, she got over, she and her husband got $180,000 in business loans forgiven from the PPP program. She said it's completely unfair for us to forgive student loans for working- and middle-class Americans. Representative Vern Buchanan of Florida said our plan was ‘reckless.’

Guess how much he got in that program? Forgiven? 2 million 300 thousand dollars. That's not a joke. Can't make this stuff up. Republican governors wrote me a letter saying this relief is, only helps the “elite few.”

Y’all know you're the “elite few?” I knew you were really special, but no, you're the “elite few.” I'm serious.

Ted Cruz, the great senator from Texas. He said, it’s for slackers, quote, “slackers who don't deserve relief.” Who in the hell do they think they are?

Enjoy!

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President Biden goes Dark Brandon on MAGA-Republican hypocrisy around student debt

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