"It was YOUR pushing, YOUR pressure, YOUR organizing that got them to this point," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Instagram."It is up to us, and to you, to decide if we are going to stop here, or if we are going to keep pushing."
Ocasio-Cortez reported between $15,000 and $50,000 in student loan debt on her recently released financial disclosure report. recently returned to the drawing board after the Supreme Court canceled Biden's student loan debt handout, ruling that Congress would have to authorize such a program explicitly.
Ocasio-Cortez, however, was unsatisfied with the terms of the plan. In July, she said the president should suspend interest on debt payments for a year. "I would like to see interest payments suspended during this time, especially during that 12-month ramp-up period," Ocasio-Cortez ."There are millions of people in this country that have student loan debt under… $10,000 or $20,000, as outlined in the plan.