Vice President Kamala Harris touted the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness efforts in a speech to a teachers union in Houston.
“We see a future where every student has the support and the resources they need to thrive, and a future where no teacher has to struggle with the burden of student loan debt,” Harris said to roughly 3,000 teachers gathered in a convention hall. “So, as an example, our administration has forgiven student loan debt for nearly 5 million Americans.”
President Joe Biden has tried multiple times to forgive student loans without getting approval from Congress. His first plan amounted to at least $400 billion, but it was struck down by the Supreme Court as illegal. He has made a litany of smaller rounds of cancellation since, some of which have also been reined in by the courts.
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