House Republicans again press President JoeBiden over staffers with student loans
The group, led by Reps. James Comer , the ranking member on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Virginia Foxx , the ranking member on the Committee on Education and Labor, has been seeking information on which staffers have loans and whether or not they received ethics waivers in order to work on the White House's $500 billion student debt bailout.
Foxx and Comer previously wrote to the Office of Government Ethics in June raising ethical questions about the potential conflicts of interest.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the letter during Thursday's press briefing. She said she had not seen it and did not answer the question directly.
The loans program has been estimated to cost $2,000 per taxpayer, with people who either didn't go to college, went without loans, or paid off their loans picking up the tab for those with loan balances.
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