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Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik: GOP ratchets up the hypocrisy in opposing Biden's student debt plan

The hypocrisy meter has been stuck at the high end as Republicans and conservatives fill the airwaves and social media to decry President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness proposal.

Now they have something else to grouse about: The White House has been gleefully pointing out on Twitter that many of those going public with complaints about forgiving $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt had themselves gotten federal COVID relief loans forgiven — often for sums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even more than a million.

For example, the White House Twitter feed paired the statement from congressional performance artist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that "for our government just to say ok your debt is completely forgiven.. it's completely unfair," with the observation that Greene received forgiveness for $183,504 in COVID relief loans.

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