The White House convened Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday after Georgia Republicans criticized the Biden administration’s student loan debt program as unfair, even though she herself received more than $183,000 in federal loan forgiveness. ).
Ms. Green has been an outspoken critic of the president’s plan to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt, calling it an unfair policy and partisan tactic because Democrats “need to vote in November.”
“For our government, well, your debt is completely forgiven, obviously they have an agenda,” she said in a recent appearance on Newsmax. “They need to vote in November, so the timing there is also purely coincidental. It’s totally unfair.”
“Taxpayers across the country, taxpayers who never took out student loans, taxpayers who paid their bills and never even went to college, are just hard-working people who shouldn’t be paying off huge student loan debt. Some college students want to go to some Ivy League schools and accumulated huge debts,” she added.
On Thursday, the White House noted in a tweet that Ms. Green herself received $183,504 in federal loan forgiveness as part of the pandemic-inspired Paycheck Protection Program, which she used to fund her construction company, According to public records.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield has joined the online attack on Ms Green, post A cheeky GIF of a student walking down a hallway throwing their paper into the air.
“We searched the White House’s Twitter feed and couldn’t seem to find a single tweet condemning this week’s acts of political terrorism against Congresswoman Green,” a spokesman for Green’s office told reporters. independenta possible reference fake SWAT calls Targeted Georgia lawmakers in recent weeks. “It is regrettable that Joe Biden and his media spokesmen continue to target MTG simply because she is outspoken against Democratic policies.”
Ms Green isn’t the only one singled out by the White House for her seemingly conflicting views on federal loan forgiveness.
The Biden administration also noted that Republican critics of the student loan program, such as Representatives Fern Buchanan, Mark Wayne Mullin and Kevin Hearn, each forgave more than $1 million in PPP loans.
The PPP is part of the Trump administration’s 2020 Covid stimulus bill, which passed with broad bipartisan support.
Research shows that most of the funding comes from the program Entering business owners and high-income familiesconstituency tilt Republicansrather than low-income workers, the initiative’s intended beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, Republicans have slammed Mr. Biden’s relatively modest student loan forgiveness program, portraying it as a giveaway to highly indebted Ivy League graduates.
In fact, this loan program is specifically aimed at low-income individuals who earn less than $125,000 a year. Analysis shows Higher-income Americans, who on average hold more student loan debt, will remain the main beneficiaries.
