Biden says 'we can afford' student debt forgiveness after GOP lawsuit - New York Post

President Joe Biden touted his historic student loan forgiveness order despite significantly scaling it back just two days earlier — and bashed Republicans who opposed it.

“We can afford to cancel $10,000 in student debt and 20,000 bucks if you had a Pell Grant for Americans making under $125 grand,” Biden said.

“I don’t want to hear a word from those members of Congress, you notice, whose families got 10s of thousands of dollars and several-million dollars in pandemic relief loan forgiveness, same ones criticizing.

In passing the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices for prescription drugs, such as insulin, which was capped at $35 for out-of-pocket costs