Pelosi Under Fire for Parroting 'Right-Wing Lies' Against Student Loan Debt Cancellation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Eliminating student debt would be an enormous bottom-up stimulus to our economy, creating millions of new jobs, accelerating home buying, and delivering additional pandemic relief to communities still recovering from the hardship of Covid-19."
49% : Earlier this year, Biden directed the Education Department to craft a memo on the president's legal authority to cancel student loan debt.
46% : The two Democratic senators also pressed the Biden administration to extend a moratorium on student loan payments, which is set to expire at the end of September.
44% : Pelosi's comments came just 24 hours after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) reiterated their call for Biden to cancel at least $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower -- a step that Schumer insisted the president has the power to take without congressional approval.
38% : but you're paying taxes to forgive somebody else's obligations," Pelosi said.
31% : "Our communities need help now, and canceling student debt is something the Biden administration can do today, without going through our dysfunctional Congress and seeking ever-elusive bipartisan support," Braxton Brewington, a spokesperson for the Debt Collective, wrote for Teen Vogue last month.
26% : Progressive activists who have been tirelessly pressuring Biden to cancel student loan debt via executive order immediately pushed back.
25% : After questioning whether Biden has the power to cancel federal student loan debt unilaterally, Pelosi went on to entertain talking points used by those who oppose the very idea of forgiving student debt.
22% : The Debt Collective, a union of debtors urging Biden to forgive all $1.8 trillion in outstanding federal student loan debt, accused the House Speaker of parroting "right-wing lies" against debt cancellation.

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