GOP, White House Spar Over Student Loan Forgiveness
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The White House's Twitter account responded to criticism of the new student loan forgiveness plan by framing some critics as hypocrites.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared on a Newsmax (Right bias) broadcast this week and called the loan forgiveness plan "completely unfair." The White House Twitter account then quoted a clip of Greene's comments and said that she "had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven." Criticisms of the plan from Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) were met with similar critiques from the White House account. The White House said Buchanan had $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven, and that Mullin had $1.4 million forgiven. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were given out during the COVID-19 pandemic to help businesses maintain their workforces.
Other conservatives are planning campaigns to frame the forgiveness plan as misguided. The conservative American Action Network will air ads nationwide for the next 10 days "featuring actors who portray everyday workers talking about how they have worked extra shifts just to help others get out of debt," according to the Washington Examiner.
Left- and center-rated sources covered the news more prominently. Right-rated sources often described the White House's response as "targeting" or "lashing out" at Republicans. Conversely, NBC News described Republicans as having "bashed" and "blasted" the plan.
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The White House hit back at Republicans in an uncharacteristic manner Thursday by using its Twitter account to go after GOP lawmakers who are bashing President Joe Biden's move to cancel some student debt after they personally benefited from having Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven during the Covid pandemic.
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The White House is attacking multiple GOP lawmakers for hypocrisy after they complained about President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program despite having large loans of their own forgiven by the government.
Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt to individual borrowers, prompting a firestorm of criticism from Republicans, many of whom argued that the debt relief was "unfair" because it would not apply to those who never went to college or had already paid off their loans.
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Republicans are pouncing on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, launching an ad blitz intended to convince voters the plan is unfair to the working class.
The American Action Network, a conservative organization, will air ads nationwide for the next 10 days featuring actors who portray everyday workers talking about how they have worked extra shifts just to help others get out of debt. The ads will air during college football and MLB games over the next week and a half.
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