President Joe Biden’s plans to deliver widespread student debt relief were dealt a serious blow last year when the Supreme Court struck down his one-time student loan forgiveness program. But he has still managed to cancel more federal student loan debt than any other president.

Biden Has Canceled Student Debt for Nearly 4 Million

  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
    51·
    9 months ago

    While Mr. Biden included the minimum wage increase in his stimulus proposal and the House passed it as part of its version of the package, a top Senate official, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that it could not be included in the bill under the strict rules governing the reconciliation process, which protects legislation from filibusters and allows it to pass with a simple majority. Democrats are using reconciliation to fast-track the bill through the Senate.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/us/minimum-wage-senate.html

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Thank you for the reminder that Biden didn’t fire the parliamentarian because she blocked what he wanted blocked.

      • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        9 months ago

        Wtf does the parliamentarian of the senate have to do with Biden? Do you honestly think Biden can fire her? They aren’t even in the same branch of government. Get it together.

        Assuming you’re just a troll at this point, but if you really don’t know the senate decides who the senate parliamentarian is, of course, just like everyone else who works for the senate, and she was appointed in 2012 by Harry Reid.