language included in the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that could pave the way toward banning student loan cancellation.
The current draft of the routine bill [bars] executive branch officials from cancelling or forgiving student loans taken out to pursue flight training or education at the undergraduate level, the Debt Collective warned on Wednesday.
It’s like republicans are actively trying to lose in November.
Edit: Also for the folks who didn’t read the bill. Ted Cruz ® is a cosponsor. Cruz HATES student debt relief. The other sponsors have all supported variations of student debt relief. Just say’n. If were wondering who snuck this into a boring routine bill, I’d start with that guy.
I keep telling folks, but the 118th Congress, the current one, we have so far 46 bills that have made it to law. The only one that really made a big difference was Pub. L 118-5 which ended officially the student loan repayment pause and ended some enhanced benefits of food stamps, SNAP, free lunches, etc.
The other 45 bills have been mostly bumps to the debt ceiling (and of course the small “benefits” Republicans reaped in those), a 250th anniversary of the Marine Corp collection coin (because Congress has the power over the treasury, that’s one of the things they do), renaming post offices (Congress has power over the post in the Constitution), some bumps to VA funding, and that’s about it.
The small wins they got in avoiding the fiscal cliff aren’t exactly massive bangers. I mean compared to say the 117th Congress, the one before this one, that hammered out 362 laws with hits like the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPs act, and so forth. There’s just been nothing like any of that in this current Congress.
And the 116th Congress gave us 344 laws, navigated a pandemic, AND got two impeachments out the door.
The Republicans have shown, they’ve got nothing. We literally have on record them as doing nothing. This has been the least productive Congress in modern history. They have literally set a brand new record for number of times it took to get a speaker and for the least amount of work done EVER.
The Republicans have shown, they’ve got nothing. We literally have on record them as doing nothing. This has been the least productive Congress in modern history. They have literally set a brand new record for number of times it took to get a speaker and for the least amount of work done EVER.
In other words, by the measure of anti-Americans who hate the Federal government, they’re the most successful Congress ever.
It’s like republicans are actively trying to lose in November.
Um, did you stop reading at the second sentence?
The Debt Collective named Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) as particularly responsible for the language.
I don’t have any love for the GOP, but this particular bit of “fuck you” is from neoliberal Democrats. They need replacing. Not with Republicans, but with better Democrats.
Nah, it’s just that the machine has long since learned that they get more votes by attacking “the enemy” than by proposing anything constructive at all. The entire crux of their existence now is about being contrarian and “hurting the people who need it”.
It’s a bit like clickbait. Everyone fucking hates it but it’s not going away because it works.
Despite what corporate-owned Democrats may tell you, abstaining from voting for one very specific position because both choices are abhorrent is objectively not the same as casting a vote for “the other guy”. Even if it functionally results in the same outcome.
It’s like republicans are actively trying to lose in November.
Edit: Also for the folks who didn’t read the bill. Ted Cruz ® is a cosponsor. Cruz HATES student debt relief. The other sponsors have all supported variations of student debt relief. Just say’n. If were wondering who snuck this into a boring routine bill, I’d start with that guy.
I keep telling folks, but the 118th Congress, the current one, we have so far 46 bills that have made it to law. The only one that really made a big difference was Pub. L 118-5 which ended officially the student loan repayment pause and ended some enhanced benefits of food stamps, SNAP, free lunches, etc.
The other 45 bills have been mostly bumps to the debt ceiling (and of course the small “benefits” Republicans reaped in those), a 250th anniversary of the Marine Corp collection coin (because Congress has the power over the treasury, that’s one of the things they do), renaming post offices (Congress has power over the post in the Constitution), some bumps to VA funding, and that’s about it.
The small wins they got in avoiding the fiscal cliff aren’t exactly massive bangers. I mean compared to say the 117th Congress, the one before this one, that hammered out 362 laws with hits like the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPs act, and so forth. There’s just been nothing like any of that in this current Congress.
And the 116th Congress gave us 344 laws, navigated a pandemic, AND got two impeachments out the door.
The Republicans have shown, they’ve got nothing. We literally have on record them as doing nothing. This has been the least productive Congress in modern history. They have literally set a brand new record for number of times it took to get a speaker and for the least amount of work done EVER.
In other words, by the measure of anti-Americans who hate the Federal government, they’re the most successful Congress ever.
Um, did you stop reading at the second sentence?
I don’t have any love for the GOP, but this particular bit of “fuck you” is from neoliberal Democrats. They need replacing. Not with Republicans, but with better Democrats.
Yea I’m calling Cantwell today, this is bullshit. She’s usually pretty solidly on the right side of things but this is ass backwards.
I think this is Debt Collective being a little loose with what “responsible” means. Both Schumer and Duckworth were involved in mainstreaming the cancellation of debt via executive order.
Procorporate trash. All of them
That. Primary the lot of these fuckers.
Ted Cruz is a cosponsor, and the only cosponsor that actively campaigns against student debt relief.
It can only go so far before people wake up and start voting properly or heads start rolling, right?
Nah, it’s just that the machine has long since learned that they get more votes by attacking “the enemy” than by proposing anything constructive at all. The entire crux of their existence now is about being contrarian and “hurting the people who need it”. It’s a bit like clickbait. Everyone fucking hates it but it’s not going away because it works.
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You mean Trump? 'Cause he – not Biden – is the one who wants Israel to “finish” exterminating the Palestinians.
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Despite what corporate-owned Democrats may tell you, abstaining from voting for one very specific position because both choices are abhorrent is objectively not the same as casting a vote for “the other guy”. Even if it functionally results in the same outcome.