Florida Rep. Cory Mills seems to have been radicalized by President Joe Biden’s latest taxpayer-funded student loan giveaway.
The New Smyrna Beach Republican recently became a co-sponsor of Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort to abolish the U.S. Department of Education.
He signed on after Biden announced that he was “forgiving” the student loans of roughly 150,000 Americans, thus erasing $1.2 billion of their accounts that, if it withstands legal scrutiny, will undoubtedly be funded by taxpayers.
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“The Supreme Court blocked it,” Biden said last week of his initial effort in 2023 to deliver a $400-billion handout to middle-class and upper-middle-class college graduates. “But that didn’t stop me.”
Biden noted that he has now wiped clean the loan slates of 3.9 million borrowers to the tune of $138 billion after the Supreme Court said he couldn’t.
The same day Biden announced his plan, Mills highlighted on X a Fox Business Network story about the move.
He posted along with it, “Once again, President Biden’s socialist policies are harming responsible American taxpayers. Our national debt is the most existential crisis facing our nation, and he is making it worse. Interest costs alone on our debt are projected to exceed our entire defense budget!”
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“It is unfair to transfer costs onto responsible Americans who have already paid off their loans all for personal political gain. This is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded bailout to pay liberal schools, plain and simple.”
Two days later, on Friday, Mills became the 29th co-sponsor of Massie’s bill to get rid of the federal Education Department, which oversees the student loan program.
The same day, Rep. William Timmons of South Carolina became the 30th. All 30 are Republicans.
Mills and Timmons were the first lawmakers to offer support for Massie’s bill in the last 11 months.
On Monday, in response to Massie issuing his appreciation for backing the bill, Mills added, “Thank you @RepThomasMassie for this much needed step to advance educational freedom, stop indoctrination, and shrink the federal government.”
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“Let’s get back to State & Individual Rights as intended under our 10th amendment, empowering parental rights, and reduce the size and overreach of federal government.”
Massie’s bill is popular with Florida’s delegation. Five members, the most of any state, support the effort to end the Education Department.
Besides Mills, they include Reps. Matt Gaetz, Bill Posey, Anna Paulina Luna and Byron Donalds.
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