On Aug. 24, President Joe Biden passed an initiative that would allow up to 10,000 dollars of student debt to be canceled for those making under 125,000 dollars a year. It would also allow up to 20,000 dollars of loan debt to be canceled for Pell Grant recipients.
The plan also announced another pause on repayment until Dec. 31, 2022.
Borrowers who are eligible are encouraged to apply before Nov. 15, 2022, to receive relief when the payment freeze period ends, according to the Department of Education’s website.
Last week, Biden gave a speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia discussing what he calls “the battle for the soul of our nation.”
“As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under attack,” Biden said.
The speech, which took place on the eve of the traditional midterm campaign season, called out what Biden referred to as “MAGA Republicans.”
“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,” he said.
Republicans criticized Biden’s speech saying it did more dividing than uniting the country.
“Joe Biden is the divider-in-chief and epitomizes the current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness, disgust and hostility towards half the country,” said Republican national committee chair, Ronna McDaniel.
Ahead of the midterms where experts are divided on who will retain control of the legislative branch, Democrats picked up a surprise House seat in Alaska.
Mary Petola, who will be the first Alaska native to serve in the House, beat candidates Sarah Palin, Nick Begich III and Al Gross in the first ranked-choice voting round in Alaska.
Petola won a special election to fill the remainder of former Rep. Don Young’s term in the House. She will face Palin again in the November election season.
On Aug. 8, former President Trump experienced an FBI raid on his Florida home, Mar-A-Lago. The raid was conducted over suspicion that Trump had taken classified documents from the White House when he left almost two years ago.
In a recently unsealed affidavit, the Department of Justice revealed that Trump had taken documents, some of which were marked classified by the National Archives.
Court filings also reveal that the FBI found four dozen empty folders that were labeled classified.
Trump himself has criticized the raid and made calls to defund the FBI. Fellow Republicans echoed those calls and said that the Department of Justice had become a political weapon.
