Biden has forgiven billions in student loans. Voters may not have noticed.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Micah Burkey, a 38-year-old urban planner from Chicago, had an older brother, Adam, who had a learning disability and had been unable to finish college, but still had more than $100,000 in student debt.
58% : "So, there's a little bit of extra tinge for me when it comes to what the debt was, what [an] anchor around my neck it felt like.
55% : "It is my belief that if we had different bankruptcy laws around student loans, that he'd still be alive today," he said.
51% : "There were batches of forgiveness, and so I logged in one day, and [my balance] was zero," he said.
50% : The pandemic student loan payment pause was a historic reset, and in 2023, the total amount of student debt dipped substantially.
48% : Eighty-four percent of registered voters had heard about Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt in a November survey from YouGov/Blueprint, and only a narrow majority, 52 percent, supported it.
47% : Fifty-five percent of respondents in a Feb. 8-11 YouGov poll said that student loan debt was somewhat or very important to them, but a plurality, 44 percent, thought borrowers should have to repay them while only 40 percent said the government should forgive them.
46% : "That's part of the reason Burkey would like to see the Biden administration do more to relieve student loan debt.
43% : President Barack Obama, under a task force chaired by then-Vice President Biden, made changes to some existing programs that made loan repayments and forgiveness easier for some, increased Pell Grant funding, and increased tax credits and funding for some colleges.
43% : Shaeffer, and many others, said the issue remained important to them as voters, too, and they'd like to see the rising cost of higher education addressed more broadly.
32% : Trump backed her, vetoing legislation that would have reversed her policy.

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