Political Quotes

“2 weeks ago, President Biden ignored the will of this Congress and issued a veto message of my resolution, which would have nullified his reckless, unconstitutional, immoral student loan transfer scheme. As others have said, he is not trying to forgive student loans, he is trying to saddle unsuspecting taxpayers with the burden of paying for others' student loan debt. Republicans and Democrats should come together, as they have already done on a bipartisan basis, and send a strong message on congressional authority to the executive branch. Again, President Biden simply does not have the authority to forgive student loans, and thus, spend hundreds of billions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, hard-earned taxpayer dollars, as he transfers debt to those who did not incur it. The power of the purse belongs to the legislative branch. It belongs to the House of Representatives. I suspect the Supreme Court will confirm that if we don't override this veto. The President seems to even know this himself. When talking about student loan forgiveness on CNN just about a year ago, he said, ``I don't think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen.'' Student loan cancellation, again, doesn't make the debt go away. It transfers the costs from the borrowers to the taxpayers, those who never went to college, those who worked hard and paid off their student loans, or those who worked their way through school to avoid student loan debt.…”