The week since Joe Biden fulfilled his campaign promise of forgiving some of the US’s student loan debt has been marred by infighting from the Democrats and blatant hypocrisy from the Republicans.
I’m not President Biden’s biggest fan, as anyone who’s read my previous work will know. Though I vote for Democrats for harm reduction, because America has no viable party that is truly on the Left, I appreciate neither his frequent God talk nor his tone-deaf appeals to ‘unity’ and ‘bipartisanship’ with the Republicans who would like to take away my queer civil rights.
But even so, I think his administration's decision to waive up to $10,000 for all federal borrowers earning less than $125,000, or $20,000 for those who received Pell Grants – awarded to students in exceptional financial need – should be celebrated.
