Democrats introduce bill to eliminate student loan interest for current borrowers
Democrats introduce bill to eliminate student loan interest for current borrowers
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation that would immediately cut interest rates to 0 percent for all 44 million student loan borrowers in the U.S. While the Student Loan …
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Cool. Where was this when they had leverage in Congress?
Why not just propose universal healthcare and universal basic income while they're at it? I mean why aim so low when we're not actually serious?
Cool. Where was this when they had leverage in Congress?
If they proposed it then they might have actually had to pass it or look bad.
When did they have leverage?
After 2020 they had enough to pass it in the house, but couldn't overcome the 60 vote fillabuster and they couldnt change that because of Manchin and Sinema. 2022 they have enough in the senate but the house will never write such a bill.
Reconciliation only needs a simple majority. All democrats plus Kamala to break the tie.
Go on a public tirade against Sinema and Manchin. Ads, Rallies, Press tours. Send Biden town to town all over Arizona and West Virginia. Explain what Build Back Better does and what Manchin and Sinema were killing. If you had to make back room deals with them. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
They will not do anything of the sort. Biden was picked by the billionaires and corporations specifically because he said nothing would fundamentally change. He was picked because he said he would veto Medicare for all.
TLDR: Republican Politicians (Fascists)are evil. Democratic Politicians (Conservatives) are objectively better but it’s a low bar to be better than Republicans.
In some of their omnibus spending packages they had leverage.
I'm not saying they had carte Blanche. But they certainly had leverage.
Yup. It's all a show to keep themselves in power while doing nothing. Performative time wasting as a generation drowns.