Biden just got caught in a huge lie about his student debt bailout

Did the president really think nobody would catch this?

Today’s a day that ends in y, so a prominent politician is lying through his teeth. This time, it’s President Joe Biden, who just got caught in a massive fib about his student loan “cancelation” (aka taxpayer-funded bailout). 

At a NowThis! event featuring the president alongside young people, Biden touted the merits of the “law” he “just signed” giving out $10,000-$20,000 in debt forgiveness for most student loan borrowers. 

“It’s passed,” Biden said. “I got it passed by a vote or two, and it’s in effect. And already, I think it’s now, 13 million people have applied.”

Here’s the thing: President Biden never got any law passed. There were never any votes at all. 

He has, quite famously, failed to get Congress to pass student debt relief. His current plan is an executive action, unilaterally enacted via fiat (meaning the president just acted on his own here), not passed through Congress or any kind of vote. 

This might sound semantic, but it’s actually a very, very important distinction. You see, under our constitutional order, Congress has the “power of the purse.” Only the House and Senate are supposed to be able to spend taxpayer money—and they would have to pass a bill directing tax dollars towards student loan debt for that to occur in this situation. 

That’s why even Democrats like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have long admitted that a president couldn’t unilaterally “cancel” student debt without Congress. Biden ignored all this, and even a Department of Education review that found the executive branch lacked constitutional authority to do this, but he went ahead with a unilateral executive order enacting cancellation anyway. 

This is why Republicans are challenging it in court as unlawful and unconstitutional—which Biden griped about in the very same clip. Biden and his Democratic allies are throwing shade at Republicans for suing to block their aid, yet the president is also blatantly misrepresenting it on crucial legal grounds.

That’s hardly fair. In fact, it’s either ignorant or deeply dishonest.

Biden’s either knowingly lying about a signature policy effort or is genuinely unaware of how one of his biggest “accomplishments” was actually enacted. Either way, that should be a huge red flag, for different, if similarly alarming, reasons. 

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Brad Polumbo
Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and co-founder of Based Politics. His work has been cited by top lawmakers such as Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Pat Toomey, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Congressman Thomas Massie, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, as well as by prominent media personalities such as Jordan Peterson, Sean Hannity, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and Mark Levin. Brad has also testified before the US Senate, appeared on Fox News and Fox Business, and written for publications such as USA Today, National Review, Newsweek, and the Daily Beast. He hosts the Breaking Boundaries podcast and has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.