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The White House extension of the student loan repayment pause yesterday is a trick. See this to understand why. Today's action is extremely important: WRITE THE WHITE HOUSE Use this link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Say something like what is below. We hope/expect to get some national news coverage of this letter. Please Do This. If you've never done more than sign our petition...AT LEAST DO THIS! =========================== Mr. President, As a member of the nation's oldest, and largest grassroots group fighting for student loan justice, I need to convey serious disappointment with the announcement yesterday regarding the extension of the federal student loan repayment pause. Before the last election, you committed to both returning constitutional bankruptcy rights to federal loans, and also broadly cancelling the debt. To date, you have done neither, although both could have been done on Day One of your Presidency, without needing any appropriation from the Treasury, or adding anything to the national debt. In yesterday's announcement from the Department of Education neither bankruptcy, nor cancelling loans administratively was even mentioned. This is not the "fresh start" mentioned in the announcement. This looks more like what happened in 2008, where the democrats squandered their control of the House/Senate/Presidency, didn't even return bankruptcy protections to the loans, and nearly $1 Trillion in predatory student loan debt was stacked on the backs of Americans in the ensuing 8 years of your vice-presidency. Over 1 million of our members asked you take both of these actions. About half of them are aligned with the democrats, over half of them supported you in 2020 in the expectation that you would fulfill your campaign promises both on bankruptcy, and federal loan cancellation. These people were the difference in close elections like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan. You and your party have an historically rare opportunity to solve this nationally threatening crisis, Mr. President. Please do not delay any longer. Please fulfill your promises to us, Mr. President. Sincerely,
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