Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out conservative Supreme Court justices for taking gifts from billionaires and killing off student loans.
Schumer said in a statement to PoliticianUSA:
This disappointing and cruel ruling shows the insensitivity of MAGA’s Republican-controlled Supreme Court. The hypocrisy is clear: As judges accept lavish six-figure gifts, they dare not help Americans saddled with student loan debt, instead siding with the powerful interests with large sums.
The fight will not end here. The Biden administration has remaining legal routes to provide a broad student debt forgiveness. As the student loan payment hiatus ends in weeks, I call on the government to do everything in its power to help millions of working and middle-class Americans struggling with student loan debt.
Routes are open to President Biden. The first thing he has to do is extend the redemption break.
It would be very smart if the administration paused all repayments through the 2024 election. If Biden is elected and the Democrats control all of Congress, they could pass a broad student loan forgiveness plan that will give borrowers the relief they need while boosting the economy.
If student loan borrowers had enough money to buy off some conservative Supreme Court justices with luxury vacations, this ruling might have turned out differently.
Majority Leader Schumer was right in denouncing the hypocrisy of the conservative majority, and now it’s up to Democrats to find a way to help people who don’t vacation with Supreme Court justices.