GOP states trying to stop Biden's student loan forgiveness push their own relief programs

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-trying-stop-bidens-loan-relief-push-state-forgiveness-prog-rcna79817

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has blasted President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan as "very unfair." Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has decried the policy as “unconscionable,” “wrong” and “out of touch.” "Un-American" and "socialism" are the words Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has used.

Yet, all three Republican governors offer at least one state program for student loan forgiveness or repayment.

They’re far from the only ones.

NBC News reviewed student loan forgiveness policies in states in which a Republican governor has called for an end to Biden's plan or a Republican attorney general has sued to stop it.

The examination found that the vast majority of those states actually offer their own taxpayer-funded student loan forgiveness programs. Nearly as many have seen Republican-sponsored bills in the current legislative sessions to expand those programs or create new ones.

Last year, Republican governors in 22 states signed on to a letter demanding Biden immediately “withdraw” his student debt forgiveness plan. Weeks later, a group of six Republican-led states sued the Biden administration in federal court, seeking to block implementation of the plan — one of two suits heard by the Supreme Court, whose decisions in the next two months will determine the future of the program.

But 20 of the 23 states that signed the letter and/or sued have at least one — and in most cases, several — state programs that offer student loan forgiveness or repayment.

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[canuckledragger]

1. How many pandemic business loans did these lying hypocrites have forgiven?

That's usually the it works with these greedy fuckers.

[NullTuples]

2. Because they cannot, will not possibly cooperate. They are the party of obstruction & proudly so.

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3. But massive amounts of corporate welfare are not socialism?