Education Secretary Miguel Cardona openly admitted Wednesday that President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan will not benefit Americans who already paid off their debt or never used debt to pay for college.
The admission underscores what millions of Americans - those who paid off their loans already - believe is an unfair plan.
Speaking with Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy outside the White House, Cardona addressed criticism that says the plan is not fair.
According to Cardona, the aim of the plan is to "address the effects of the pandemic." He claimed his responsibility as education secretary is to ensure that people are not worse off now than they were before the pandemic hit. The claim is confusing, because Americans who hold student loan debt have had a pause on repaying loans for 2.5 years.
"But to the fairness question, the people that are sitting at home having just paid off their student loans or having paid them off years ago, what's in it for them?" Doocy pushed back.
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