#I mean yeah there’s still manchin and sinema who might have pulled some power trip shit

[lobstermatriarch]

People understand that just fine. But the challenge of it being unconstitutional was only upheld because he pushed it as an executive order and didn’t get congressional approval. Two years ago, it might have been possible to regroup, put a bill forward, and pass this through congress. Now we have a republican house that definitely won’t pass a bill. If the executive office hadn’t waited until the midterms to sign the order as a publicity stunt and had put it forward early on, there would still be a chance of it passing through the house and senate. It’s not both sides-ism to say that holding off and using student loan forgiveness to buy political points right before the midterms was a crappy way to treat people’s livelihood.