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Is Biden To Blame for the Student Debt Mess?

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The Biden Administration's Policy on Student Debt Relief Doesn't Fit the Emergency

The Heroes Act, both in its text and in its context, was about being in the middle of an emergency. The problem is that the Biden administration's purposes were part of a long-term, non-emergency set of goals. There were also these rules about who would be eligible for debt relief; you had to be making a certain amount of money. And then it took three months to formulate a rule about means testing.

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