On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Primetime,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) responded to previous arguments from President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that the President can’t unilaterally transfer student loan debt by stating that the HEROES Act gives the President the authority to do so, and he thinks President Biden “may have been deliberating whether it was good policy.”
After playing clips of Biden saying that he can’t transfer $50,000 in debt because “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing a pen” and Pelosi stating that “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not.” Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “Is that not what the Supreme Court was arguing today, that it was a vast overreach?”
Khanna answered, “Well, when you look at the actual statute, the HEROES Act, the HEROES Act was very, very clear. It said, under emergency conditions, the secretary has the…
