President Joe Biden’s latest ploy to buy votes to bolster his failing party into 2022 has supremely dishonored the men and women who offered up their lives in order to defend our nation.
According to the legal opinion that Biden is using to support his $300 billion-plus student loan cancellation, the potentially listless college student is considered on the same level as a military veteran who risked everything, many of them suffering heinous injuries and losing dear friends, to earn their just compensation from a grateful nation.
This isn’t a joke, though it seems like it should be a cruel, and tasteless one. But Biden’s legal team has cooked up the justification that the 2003 HEROES Act (Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students), which was designed explicitly to grant relief to those student loan borrowers either serving in or being impacted by war or natural disaster, was meant to offer relief for college students.
Lisa Brown, the U.S. Department of Education General Counsel wrote a memo to Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona providing the administration’s legal justification, “Specifically, the HEROES Act authorizes the Secretary to ‘waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs’ if the Secretary ‘deems’ such waivers or modifications ‘necessary to ensure’ at least one of several enumerated purposes, including that borrowers are ‘not placed in a worse position financially’ because of a national emergency. 20 U.S.C. § 1098bb(a)(1), (2)(A).”
Brown’s opinion, around which the entirety of Biden’s actions is based, directly repudiates the far more conservative reading of the HEROES Act that was published under Former President Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in which General Counsel Reed Rubinstein argued:
Everything Biden has done is a slap in the face of the military.
I sure am glad someone brought this up. I am a veteran. I earned a college degree by going to school at night and borrowing just a little money using personal bank loans which I paid off by working full time during the day. I regret that I was not privileged enough to enjoy the college parties that others experienced and it pi$$es me off Joe Biden has not included me for the payouts that is about to rain on all the party goers that veterans have sacrificed for. Let the Bidens choke on their crack pipes but I thank them for THEIR service!
Yes > Send ME to FREE college !!! I am WHITE & a Veteran who got Nothing for college !!!! Period