BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden should help those struggling under crushing student loan debt by immediately canceling up to $50,000 of debt for federal student loan borrowers, Democratic elected officials said Thursday.
Biden can make the move by using existing authority granted to him under the Higher Education Act, said U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey at an afternoon news conference.
Pressley said the action will address a crisis that disproportionately harms Black and brown borrowers.
“We’re all here to call on President Biden to do right by the movement that elected him and to use his executive authority to
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