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Senator Rubio Has His Own Unique Solution to the Student Debt Crisis.
Bogged down with loans? Just get elected to the Senate and write a book.
Following Biden’s announcement that he will be cancelling up to $20,000 in federal student loans, Republicans predictably have been absolutely seething. While a large part of the anger has of course been due to the fact that they don’t see the American people worthy of any kind of relief from the federal government our tax dollars fund, the anger is also due to the undeniable notion that this will be a benefit to any Democrat smart enough to campaign on it going into the general election. Well, aside from whining about how deeply unfair it is, Republicans have weighed in with their own ideas on how people can pay off those student loans.
Marco Rubio’s solution in particular really stood out.
Fatma Khlaed with Newsweek writes:
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, faced criticism online after saying on Saturday that he paid off his student loan debt from the money he gained by writing a book.
“I owed over $100,000 in student loans. The day I got elected to the Senate, I had over $100,000 still in student loans that I was able to pay off because I wrote a book and from that money, I was able to pay it,”…
