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White House gets personal in rejecting student-debt plan criticism

The White House is hitting back at critics of President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan in unusually personal terms.

In a series of tweets, the White House singled out members of Congress who criticized the plan by pointing to Paycheck Protection Program loans that flowed to their businesses and were forgiven.

Mr. Biden’s plan includes canceling $10,000 in student debt for borrowers who earn less than $125,000 per year and $20,000 in debt for those who received Pell Grants.

“It’s completely unfair,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, told Newsmax, saying blue-collar Americans will be asked to repay loans for students who went to Ivy League schools.