U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.

Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.

The president’s announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.

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      Yes, we need someone even older to stave off the most common complaint about Biden running for reelection

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        Is the complaint legitimate? Especially hard to make the case for Sanders considering how much of a firebrand he is. Not going to get Sleepy Joe memes out of that.

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      We need the house and the senate with a comfortable majority. Sanders as president without those critical conditions being met would make little difference.

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      we need bernard sanders brain inside a younger person. Matt Gaetz isn’t using his? maybe some kind of transplant or brain swap device is in order.

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              People who say this are so fuckin bougie. Poor people can’t afford to throw away their votes, but middle class people fuck over the poor by doing so all the time.

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                Poor people don’t really vote in the first place. And when they do they vote for rich people like those in the Democratic or Republican party.

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                  Good way to agree that you’re an entitled dude lol. I know people who vote because their life depends on the GOP not further dismantling the welfare state

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                    Yet they continue to fail to defend it. They would be forced to if there was a strong left party using their leverage against the Dems.

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                  Oh wow, an insult from Lenny’s biggest troll. All done making excuses for climate change, I guess?

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                    I didn’t insult you, I gave you etiquette pointers. calling me a troll doesn’t change whether you’re being condescending.