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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/how-much-will-taxpayers-foot-bidens- student-loan-handouts-half-trillion-upenns-wharton-school

The White House announced another student loan handout on Friday, bringing
the total number of borrowers who have received President Biden’s debt
relief so far to 4.3 million. According to the White House, the total
student loan cancellation sum is a whopping $153 billion.

"Today, my Administration is canceling student debt for 277,000 more
people, bringing the total number of Americans who have been approved for
debt relief so far under my Administration to 4.3 million borrowers
through various actions," Biden said Friday via the White House.

As for who is footing the bill, Biden has proposed "no new revenue to
cover the cost, which means it goes straight on top of the pile of what
America owes to its creditors."

So, how much do taxpayers have to pay to afford these programs? According
to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the sum tops a half-trillion.

On Thursday, the Wharton School's newsletter Budget Model released an
analysis of the student loan debt relief provisions which Biden announced
on Monday and added that sum to a previous analysis of Biden’s new Income- Driven Repayment ("SAVE") plan.

"We estimate that the New Plans will cost $84 billion in addition to the
$475 billion that we estimated for President Biden’s SAVE plan, for a
total cost of about $559 billion across both plans," said the analysis.

Biden’s forgiveness proposal announced on Monday included five main
provisions, the Department of Education said.

These include: Waiving accrued and capitalized interest for millions of borrowers; automatically discharging debt for borrowers otherwise eligible
for loan forgiveness under SAVE, even for those who do not enroll in the program; eliminating student debt for borrowers in repayment for 20 years
or more; helping borrowers who enrolled in low-financial-value programs or institutions; and, assisting borrowers who experience hardship in paying
back their loans.

"These historic steps reflect President Biden’s determination that we
cannot allow student debt to leave students worse off than before they
went to college," U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal said in Monday’s announcement. "The President directed us to complete these
programs as quickly as possible, and we are going to do just that."

According to the Wharton School newsletter, the plans include "debt relief
for about 750,000 individuals residing in households that, on average,
earn $312,977 in annual household income."

The analysis also found most of the cost of these plans comes from waiving interest.

"Of the $84 billion, about $58 billion comes from waiving accrued and capitalized interest. The second-largest cost of $19 billion stems from eliminating debt for borrowers in repayment for 20 years or more (or 25
years with graduate student debt)," the analysis said.

It continued: "The remaining $7 billion is associated with assisting
borrowers who are experiencing hardship, which we interpret to imply shorter-term income or cost shocks that are otherwise not covered by the
SAVE plan. The costs associated with the other two provisions have already
been almost fully accounted for in our previous analysis of the SAVE plan, thereby producing no additional material costs for the New Plans."

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that Biden’s sweeping
student loan handout was illegal, he is forging ahead with additional loan forgiveness initiatives — and he’s not backing down.

"From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity. I
will never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us," Biden said Friday.

The White House has contended the relief of debt would encourage those
impacted to increase how much they spend, thus giving some return to the economy.


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