“He was nervous about how it would play with working-class people,” one senior Democrat said, recalling the president’s comments at a meeting this spring.
convinced that aggressive student debt relief would give Democrats a better chance of holding Congress in the fall through a badly needed boost from young voters and people of color. White House aides also privately marshaled evidence to show that the more targeted plan wouldn’t do much to erase racial disparities.
Ramamurti in particular would later prove crucial in persuading Biden to get behind debt cancellation amid skepticism from other parts of the administration, as part of a team led with Rice and other senior White House officials Carmel Martin and Brian Deese.“Working with the Biden transition to get key people throughout the White House and in places like the Department of Education set the stage for many allies to be in the room as this was being discussed,” said Adam Green, a Warren ally.
“During BBB, there were a lot of policies people on the center left knew were irresponsible but did not want to criticize because they wanted to be team players,” said Ben Ritz, director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute, alluding to complaints about expensive and controversial proposals. Now, he said, opponents are unwilling to be silent about their objections to Biden’s student loan plans.
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That conversation went something like… look Joe, these ppl on Twitter keep pummeling us for breaking our promise. It looks bad…
2/2 WhiteHouse All the people trying to convince him to up the payments seem to have forgotten we elected him, not Sanders, not Warren. Why was that?
You spelled unconstitutional wrong.