 So this irritates me so much Right here. I know you all saw it. So basically this is Nancy Pelosi speaker of the house supposedly The most liberal person in the history of the world using right when right-wing talking points against student debt cancellation That would be an attitude that people would have but even take it on top of that suppose your family was not Your child just decided they want to at this time not want to go to college, but you're paying taxes to forgive somebody else's Obligations you may not be happy about that But I'm not happy about all of the money that I give to the government being used to bomb people abroad I'm not happy that the money that I give to the government Funds subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, which is ruining our planet We're not happy about a lot of things But if I'm happy about anything it's when the money that we give to the government actually makes a difference in people's lives now I actually do not subscribe to the idea that Taxes fund spending because I believe in modern monetary theory where the government doesn't need to pay for anything And especially during times of crisis like right now during a pandemic Deficit spending is incredibly important So for her right now to use these right-wing talking points against the policy that would bail out an entire generation Burdened by student debt. It is honestly morally reprehensible You know what we want all of our kids to reach their fulfillment to the extent that they want to go to college We do not want them to be prohibited from doing that for financial reasons, but that's what's happening effectively if you don't make college tuition-free and You refuse to cancel student debt I've had high school students come in here and say with their grades They're able to be accepted in the Ivy League here and there, but their families Economic situation does not enable that to happen because they have to stay close to home to work to be part Of the family situation So what we'd like to do is have an economy that is fair that gives Opportunity and does not hold anybody back because of financial reasons and and again How some people may view the relieving people of this obligation Has to be viewed in a fair way where we have something that gives Opportunity that's it's not fair inherently because you have to have money to be able to go to college and not suffer for the rest of your life with student debt And on top of this I want to I want to show you this article here because they contain a couple of tweets So she also says that the president doesn't have the ability to cancel the student loans so We'll listen to her and then I'm gonna show you the response to this because actually members of the squad In particular Mondare Jones called her out and I'm gonna prove to you how she's wrong either She is lying or she's misinformed I think it's the former because this is the speaker of the house She knows what is legally permissible for the president of the United States So for her to say this here is it's gross United States has the power for debt forgiveness He does not he can postpone. He can delay But he does not have that power that would he also Can cancel yes, he can postpone and delay, but he also can cancel student debt Unilaterally, there's a lot that the president can do via executive order that Joe Biden is not doing he can in fact cancel student loans he can legalize recreational marijuana or at least remove it from you know the schedule that it is currently there's a lot that he Can do that. He's choosing to not do and so she's trying to justify it here. That's to be an act of Congress and I Don't even like to call it forgiveness because that implies a transgression. It's not to be forgiven get Just freeing people from those obligations You can call it forgiven. I don't feel like you're you're saying I made a transgression like this is It's absurd. So let me show you why she's wrong christen foremost regardless if legally She believes the president has the power to do this or not He's already done it Joe Biden has canceled One billion in loans you can't see it because the title is kind of cut off here, but he's canceled one billion in student loans This is from people who were Defrauded by these like for-profit colleges, but that's what he did. Also guess who else did it? Donald Trump Donald Trump canceled student loans in the stimulus from last year of Veterans but nonetheless he canceled student loans. He did this unilaterally. So And do you want to know who calls her out? I love this Mondair Jones He says there's been a lot of factually inaccurate talk about student debt cancellation today So let's speak let's so let's clear a few things up president Biden has the clear authority to liberate 43 million Americans from the crushing burden of student debt. He needs to use it. I love that. I Love that because he's correct here He's absolutely correct. In fact, I'm gonna retweet this because this is based she is lying and It's just it's so frustrating. It's not like this is surprising for Nancy Pelosi But it's still something that needs to be called out because this is a you know The Democratic Party could get so much more young people to vote for them if they just even Pretended to care but things like this. It's really frustrating now. That's not to say that like they haven't already done good things I think that for the most part Biden has handled COVID-19 much better than you know, his predecessor obviously so and the The package that was passed that is tackling childhood poverty the early childhood tax credit. That's great. It needs to be extended for longer But you know, they've done good things, but that's not going to be enough, right? Yeah, as James from the internet points out Joe Biden did say that nothing would fundamentally change and that is absolutely True that's absolutely true and hell even it like even with that in mind Even if they did cancel student loan debt nothing would really fundamentally change like fundamental change when I think of that I think about like really Changing the structures changing the institutions in the United States that lead to this current position But I mean this is cancelling student debt is like one of many things needed to be done to improve the economy to alleviate the suffering of an entire generation, but they're just they're not doing it So this is from Jake Johnson of common dreams And he writes how speaker Nancy Pelosi was met with swift backlash Wednesday after she claimed That president Joe Biden does not have the authority to cancel federal student loan Debt on his own a position that puts her at odds with legal experts and prominent members of her own party Yeah Let me just read that part again because she should be embarrassed and issue a retraction It puts her at odds with legal experts and prominent members of her own party The legal precedent is already set. So she said this before trump or biden canceled any student loan debt She would get more of a pass, but the reason why there's so much backlash is because We just saw It happened unilaterally and it's it's it's insufferable and and by the way She's going against the other Leader in the democratic party chuck schumer Someone who I do not like but even he says yes The president does have the authority to cancel student loan debt unilaterally so and we believe he should cancel 50 000 Now should he cancel 100 of student loan debt? Yes, because student loans disproportionately are held by the government. So they should cancel everything that they can cancel Um and pay off whatever's left But it's just this is this is really like this is low It's low people think that the president of the united states has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not Uh, she said during a press briefing Press briefing Uh, he can postpone. He can delay. Okay. Well, we already saw this So progressive activists who have been tirelessly pressuring biden to cancel student loan debt via executive order immediately pushed back The debt collective a union of debtors urging biden to forgive all 1.8 trillion in an outstanding federal student debt student loan debt Accused the house speaker of parroting right wing lies against debt collection. And that's that's true The truth is biden can cancel 100 of your federal student loans with a signature We wrote the paperwork for him to do it. The group tweeted pointing to a draft executive order released last month last september Eileen connor Uh dianne lunan and toby merrill of the project of predatory student lending argued in a letter That contrary to pelosi's claim The president has the power to direct the secretary of the united states department of education to exercise his or her Existing authority to cancel federal student loan debt on a broad or categorical basis So, I mean, I think that you get the point It's embarrassing for her to to come out and say this especially when Her colleagues don't agree Just this is the senate majority leader check shimmer. I'm standing together with senator warren and iana presley president biden should extend the pause on student payments and president biden should cancel student debt So imagine being to the right of chuck schumer if you're a democrat Imagine that isn't that insane to think about and I will say like in terms of competence I do think that nancy pelosi just as a leader Is more competent than chuck schumer because she actually does whip votes and whole democrats Accountable oftentimes in ways that I don't like because she is very hostile towards progressives But with chuck schumer, he's a very feckless leader. He lets senators Do what they want sided with republicans and we have confirmation of this even though it was obvious Through people like claire mcaskill who said, oh, yeah, I love chuck schumer because he's a very lax Leader, you know, he doesn't ever berate us. He just lets us do what we what we need to do if we're from purple states So I hate chuck schumer, but probably because he's afraid of a primary. He is now ideologically at least seemingly To the left of pelosi and he's saying What he needs to say Yeah, chuck schumer he will listen or never mind that's 17 minutes But he's been very vocal about wanting to cancel student loan debt Which is surprising and again, I don't care if this is posturing because he's afraid of an aoc primary challenger Or some left-wing primary challenger just what he's advocating for is good Now if he actually gets results that would be even better But this is a step in the right direction Like I'll give credit where it's due the fact that nancy pelosi is at odds with him here is so embarrassing for her It really is