Rep. Tim Ryan told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that President Biden prioritized the wrong people in his student loan relief announcement this week—despite previously urging for that relief just years prior.
But Ryan’s objection flew in the face of an October 2018 tweet in which he pleaded for student debt relief. He followed that tweet with House votes in 2020 that supported $10,000 in student debt relief. It’s opened him up to criticism from his Trump-backed opponent J.D. Vance, who chastised Ryan as having “flip-flopped on every side of the student debt issue” in aThe tweet also did not escape Bash, who quoted it back to Ryan. “Isn't that what President Biden’s policy is trying to do?” she asked.