No matter who you are, when you’re presented with an organizing opportunity, you have to take it.
…and that’s just what Alexandria did Wednesday at the White House.
After a bill signing ceremony for a bill Alexandria co-sponsored to strengthen the postal service, she used her time with President Biden to discuss student loan debt cancellation:
It’s because of our pressure from inside and outside Congress that this week, President Biden extended the emergency pause on federal student loan payments through August.
It’s something, but it’s not enough. These pauses only extend the panic and disorder folks feel every time we near a deadline. Alexandria and our movement cannot understate the economic danger and risk for our country if President Biden does not make the emergency pause on federal student loan payments permanent.
Alexandria has been outspoken that the $1.75 trillion dollar student loan debt emergency is “a moral hazard.” Forgiveness is the right thing to do.
President Biden made student loan forgiveness a major talking point while campaigning for president in 2020. We cannot let up the pressure until President Biden keeps his campaign promise and permanently forgives federal student loan debt for the millions of Americans crushed under this economic burden.
Together we can keep up the pressure on President Biden to not only do what’s in the best interest of our nation’s economic recovery, but also what is morally right: cancel student loan debt permanently.
Thank you,
Team AOC
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