U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.

Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.

The president’s announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.

  • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s not brainwashing when the voting system is specifically set up to give an advantage to the dominant parties and to suppress every minority party. There are valid reasons to be skeptical that a 3rd party could ever win without a reformed voting system.

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      They also can’t win if everybody says “don’t vote for them because they can’t win” so I will carry on voting for them and spreading the word that we all should.

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        You’d be a lot better off voting for majority party candidates that want to enact ranked-choice voting.

        Until that happens, unfortunately the reality is that third parties are going to remain on the margins in the US.

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            And it’s always settled to two major parties, in spite of that. The fact that we’ve had several parties over the country’s history but it almost always comes down to two major parties should tell you something.

            Fortunately, there may be an opening soon, with Republicans in disarray.

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        They can’t win because they don’t even play the game correctly. You can’t just get up and give grand speeches about radically different ideas, with little to no strategy or evidence to back it up and expect to jump into literally the most powerful job in the world. It’s utter nonsense. Unless you’re a Billionaire that wants to buy your way in.

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          You can tell none of the third parties are serious because all their attention goes to the presidency.

          They have no consideration for what would happen if they actually won. No representatives in the House, no senators, no state governors even. They’d be lame ducks the instant they were sworn in.

          They should be targeting Congressional seats and state governorships. Instead, they’re just grifting money.

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            They’d be lame ducks the instant they were sworn in.

            Congress spent the last century concentrating power in the executive. I think you’d be surprised what a motivated individual could accomplish.

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              You’re underestimating Congress. It still plays a lot of roles, especially the Senate. It just isn’t obvious because the president’s party typically has control at the beginning of their terms.

              This would probably work for Greens except that they don’t have people running for those positions.

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        That’s not entirely wrong, but it would be very dangerous for left and centrist voters to not vote democrat now, because democracy has never been more at stake. You can safely start voting for third parties, when the right is weak or not interested in destruction of democracy