Joe Biden will devote an additional $9 billion to student debt relief, the White House said on Wednesday, which is focused on promoting the American president’s concrete actions while the Republican Party is tearing itself apart.
This measure will benefit 125,000 Americans, according to a press release from the American executive.
“The president has long believed that college should be a gateway to the middle class, not a burden on families,” the White House said.
The decision announced Wednesday will particularly benefit people with disabilities.
In total, the Biden administration claims to have canceled some $127 billion in student debt, benefiting 3.6 million people.
The American president, however, has limited room for maneuver in this matter: at the end of June, the Supreme Court, firmly anchored on the right, rejected a much more massive measure from the White House, which could have erased several hundred billion in debt.
Higher education costs a fortune in the United States and more than 43 million people have federal student loans to repay, totaling more than $1.6 trillion.
Since the start of the week, the American president has chosen to stay away from the chaos that has engulfed the American Congress, due to internal dissensions in the Republican Party.
The 80-year-old Democrat, candidate for re-election, is ostensibly concentrating on his major projects in economic and social matters.
This week, for example, he spoke of his policy in favor of people with disabilities, while his administration assured that it had made significant progress towards reducing the cost of medicines, which are sometimes exorbitant in the United States.