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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alex Woodward

Bernie Sanders says Americans shouldn’t face ‘financial ruin’ to ‘get a damn education’ in Supreme Court speech

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Senator Bernie Sanders joined a rally with progressive lawmakers and hundreds of student loan borrowers outside the steps of the US Supreme Court on 28 February demanding that the nation’s high court preserve President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel higher-education debts for millions of Americans.

“In America, we have 45 million Americans, young people, drowning in student debt,” the progressive senator from Vermont told the crowd.

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