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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abe Asher

90 top Democrats call on Biden to do more on student debt

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Nearly 100 leading members of the Democratic Party are calling on President Joe Biden to do more to fulfill his campaign promise to cancel student debt for American borrowers.

Mr Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness programme, which would have cancelled a minimum $10,000 of debt for all borrowers making less than $100,000, was blocked earlier this summer by the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote that fell along ideological lines.

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