President Joe Biden’s perpetual gaffe-and-lie machine is running so hot that liberal “fact-checkers” can no longer ignore it.
Biden blundered into another misleading comment on Sunday, telling a liberal podcast that his pricey student-debt relief package was backed by Congress.
“It’s passed,” Biden said. “I got it passed by a vote or two, and it’s in effect.”
The problem: Biden “passed” the taxpayer-funded giveaway by signing an executive order.
To recap, Biden’s plan erased up to $10,000 of the student-loan debt for borrowers who make up to $125,000 a year. The amount doubles for Pell grant recipients.
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Opponents have sued Biden on multiple grounds, saying his move is unconstitutional. Conservative critics have even resuscitated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s line that only Congress, not Biden, had the authority to wipe away the debt.
On Monday, “fact-checkers” at both CNN and FactCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, gently declared that Biden was wrong.
Instead of saying he lied or perhaps lacked the mental agility to remember what he did just two months ago, CNN said Biden was “incorrect” about his own policy, while FactCheck.org noted he “wrongly said” that it narrowly passed Congress.
FactCheck.org even noted that a college student in the audience at the podcast was better informed than Biden about the policy, as he opened a question on student debt by saying, “Your administration moved to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt through an executive action… .”
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The Washington Times noted that White House officials tried to clean up the mess by telling the media Biden was actually referring to the Inflation Reduction Act — which is an odd spin given that, in addition to doing nothing to bring down inflation, the bill has nothing to do with student debt.
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