President Biden announces the cancellation of $1.2 billion in student loan debt during a visit Wednesday to the Julian Dixon Library in Culver City. So he has used executive actions to cancel student debt totaling $138 billion for nearly 3.9 million people, according to the White House. Biden was joined at the event by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Sen. Alex Padilla and other California elected officials. They shout about problems but offer nothing,” Biden told a couple of hundred people who paid as much as $250,000 to attend. Get the best of the Los Angeles Times’ politics coverage with the Essential Politics newsletter.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2024 12:58 UTC