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[–] kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Student loans: I sleep

Title 42 + building new border walls: Real shit?

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you miss todays announcement about student loans relief?

[–] kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! What was it? Oh my god I hope they're actually gonna do something that affects me for once

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Biden administration has approved debt relief for an additional 125,000 student loan borrowers, totaling $9 billion in forgiveness, the White House said Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/biden-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/index.html

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is literally just them correcting admistrative errors not new relief

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

The only thing that applies to me here is the new SAVE IDR plan. But hey, it still lowers my monthly payment a little bit AND let's payments actually go to principal instead of just shaving off interest. It's not nothing.

I would still like to see full debt relief, but I think that has to be a matter of legislation if I understand correctly. And I'll take baby steps over nothing at all.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Here's what looks like an answer: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/30/joe-biden-forced-build-donald-trumps-border-wall/

TLDR: This is a 2019 law passed by Congress during the baby hands administration. The Biden administration has been pretty careful not to overstep other branches of government(I think as a direct response to how flagrantly and harmfully baby hands used executive action), and while Biden returned wall money taken from the DoD, the rest of the wall money was explicitly designated by Congress for building the border wall in 2019 and Congress will not cancel that legislative order(wall funds), despite Biden asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds law since arriving in office in 2020.

This post is misleading, the money is being legally used for a legislatively required purpose and any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.