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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great! Surely they'll cut funding to the US military too, right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nope. From an article about the debt ceiling bill that resumed student loan payments in June: "Some $886 billion will be spent on defense, according to the bill text."

That's an increase after a $858 billion defense bill passed in december

Biden's student loan forgiveness only would have cost $400 billion, but spending almost $2 trillion per year on ending people's lives is more important.