White House targets GOP lawmakers calling student loan plan unfair.
A video circulated this week of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, "For our government just to say, 'OK, your debt is completely forgiven.' ... It's completely unfair." In response, the: "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven."
In similar comments, Rep. Mike Kelly tweeted, "Asking plumbers and carpenters to pay off the loans of Wall Street advisors and lawyers isn’t just unfair. It's also bad policy." Rep. Markwayne Mullin tweeted, "This places undue burden on those already suffering due to the weight of Biden’s failed economic policy."The big picture:
The official White House Twitter account listed the value of what it said was each lawmaker's forgiven PPP loans in corresponding tweets: Kelly at
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