Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten worked herself into a scream during a
speech outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, comparing President Joe
Biden�s student loan handout to the COVID-19 small business loans of 2020.

Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT),
spoke at the Student Debt Crisis Center�s rally in Washington as Supreme
Court justices heard a pair of challenges to Biden�s student loan debt
handout, which would cancel $10,000 in federal student loans for
individuals making less than $125,000 per year or households earning less
than $250,000 annually as of 2020 or 2021.

The plan, which would give an additional $10,000 in debt cancellation to
recipients of Pell Grants, is estimated to cost taxpayers about $400
billion over the next three years, according to the bipartisan
Congressional Budget Office.

Weingarten compared the situation to when Congress passed a bipartisan
$2.2 trillion stimulus package during the beginning stages of the COVID-19
pandemic, which established the Paycheck Protection Program and provided
forgivable loans to small businesses.

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"If we go to college and we stay in college, we need to actually make sure
that it's affordable � that it doesn't take everything and everything that
our families can do," she said. "And so that is why President Biden said
we are going to deal with that � and the secretary of education has the
right to do it."

"And frankly, and this is what really pisses me off," she said. "During
the pandemic, we understood that small businesses were hurting, and we
helped them, and it didn�t go to the Supreme Court to challenge it. Big
businesses were hurting, and we helped them, and it didn't go to the
Supreme Court to challenge it."

"All of a sudden, when it�s about our students, they challenge it, the
corporations challenge it, the student loan lenders challenge it," she
continued, screaming and jumping up and down. "That is that not right,
that is not fair, and that is what we are fighting as well when we say
cancel student debt. This is about the people, and it is about the
people's future, and it is about all of your futures."

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Supreme Court justices will hear a pair of challenges to the student loan
debt handout, both of which involve questions about whether the Department
of Education was authorized by Congress to advance the rule implementing
Biden�s plan and followed the proper regulatory procedures.

Biden has claimed that he has the authority to wipe student loan payments
under a law known as the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for
Students Act, which initially intended to benefit service members deployed
to Afghanistan and Iraq by waiving their student loan debt or providing
other relief.

Jessica Chasmar is a digital writer on the politics team for Fox News and
Fox Business. Story tips can be sent to Jessica.Chasmar@fox.com.

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