Sen. Elizabeth Warren may have entered politics as a Harvard Law professor, but her case for a massive elimination of up to $50,000 in debt for America’s 45 million student-loan holders is deeply rooted in a different discipline: math.
“It was not just a random number — it was a number to get the most relief to the most people,” the Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate told me in a phone interview Wednesday, racing between votes on a busy day on Capitol Hill.
With her trademark professorial patience and always backed up by the data, Warren made her pitch for a massive assault on America’s $1.75 trillion college debt bomb that would be substantially more than a $10,000-per-person trial balloon floated by Team Biden — but also not the total debt relief backed by some activists.
