White House Dunks, Hard, on GOP Critics of Biden’s Student Debt Relief Who Had Their Federal Debts Forgiven
thewrap.comthe argument is a baldfaced lie — is, as a great many people soon pointed out, a lot of critics complaining about it are themselves very rich and have had astonishingly huge amounts of federal debt forgiven.
Specifically, they received hundreds of thousands, in some cases millions of dollars, in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, only to get those debts erased by the PPP forgiveness program.And on Thursday, the Biden administration joined in with a Twitter thread that really took the “this you?” meme to its logical conclusion.
It detailed just how much money — a lot, by the way — 6 of the most prominent critics have had forgiven. We’ll just drop it here now:Congressman Vern Buchanan had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/bXpwJlWRm4Congressman Kevin Hern had over $1 million in PPP loans forgiven.
https://t.co/XsBaqxNZN4Congressman Matt Gaetz had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.https://t.co/XPgC0pETkpOf course, those of you good at math will note that the vast sums these hypocrites got wiped clean are significantly higher than $20,000.We have to wonder if they’ve put something in the water at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., because this is an uncharacteristically combative and funny social media response from the normally more cautious Biden Administration.
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