President Biden unveils latest student loan forgiveness plan

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54% : The president announced immediately after the Supreme Court decision that Cardona would undertake the process because he would have the power under the Higher Education Act to waive or compromise student loan debt in specific cases.
53% : Speaking in Madison Area Technical College's H. Douglas Redsten Gymnasium about an hour later, Biden said eliminating student loan debt for borrowers provides "the freedom to chase their dreams.
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52% : "President Biden will use every tool available to cancel student loan debt for as many borrowers as possible, no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stand in his way," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on a press call Sunday.
52% : "The president directed us to complete these programs as quickly as possible, and we are going to do just that." Like Biden's previous efforts to cancel student loan debt, the president's latest proposal was met with criticism by Republicans.
51% : The administration's new proposal, if fully implemented, would provide debt relief to more than 30 million borrowers, when combined with Biden's previous efforts to cancel student loan debt.
51% : According to details provided by White House officials, Biden plans to launch new loan forgiveness programs through the Higher Education Act, expanding on powers the president turned to after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the administration's first debt cancellation plan, which proposed eliminating up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year.
51% : "These historic steps reflect President Biden's determination that we cannot allow student debt to leave students worse off than before they went to college," U.S. Undersecretary of Education James Kvaal said in a statement.
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48% : Biden also proposes eliminating student debt for borrowers with undergraduate degrees if they have been in repayment for at least 20 years.
48% : The proposal marks Biden's second attempt at large-scale loan forgiveness after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the administration's first debt cancellation plan, which proposed eliminating up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year.
47% : Of respondents who are very enthusiastic to vote, Trump holds a 19-point lead over Biden.
28% : Trump, meanwhile, lost more than 110,000 votes in the state's GOP primary to candidates who are no longer in the race, including more than 76,000 votes for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
16% : In 2020, Biden defeated Trump by 20,682 votes, while Trump won the state in 2016 by securing 22,748 more votes than Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
9% : Biden and Trump remain deadlocked in Wisconsin, according to a Marquette Law School Poll released in February.

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