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President Joe Biden may have just canceled student debt broadly, but New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t think he should stop there.
On Wednesday, Biden finally took a step toward fulfilling a core part of his campaign pledge by announcing up to $20,000 in student-debt cancellation for Pell Grant recipients making under $125,000 a year and up to $10,000 in relief for other federal borrowers under the same income cap. While Biden said this would be a “one-time” broad relief, though, Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t think that suffices.
“It was YOUR pushing, YOUR pressure, YOUR organizing that got them to this point,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in an Instagram post, referring to Biden’s student-loan forgiveness. “It is up to us, and to you, to decide if we are going to stop here, or if we are going to keep pushing.
