February 28, 2023 3:37pm EST
Randi Weingarten screams about student debt outside SCOTUS: ‘That is not fair!’
Weingarten says challenge to student loan handout 'really pisses me off'
By Jessica Chasmar | Fox News
Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten worked herself into a scream during a speech outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, comparing President Biden’s student loan handout to the COVID-19 small business loans of 2020.
Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), spoke at the Student Debt Crisis Center’s rally in Washington as Supreme Court justices heard a pair of challenges to Biden’s student loan debt handout, which would cancel $10,000 in federal student loans for individuals making less than $125,000 per year or households earning less than $250,000 annually as of 2020 or 2021.
The plan, which would also give an additional $10,000 in debt cancelation to recipients of Pell Grants, is estimated to cost taxpayers about $400 billion over the next three years, according to the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Weingarten compared the situation to when Congress passed a bipartisan $2.2 trillion stimulus package during the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, which established the Paycheck Protection Program and provided forgivable loans to small businesses.
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