Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre falsely claimed that the administration’s $300-900 billion student loan bailout will provide relief for “relief to 90% of Americans that are making less than $75,000 a year.”
“It’s a very targeted plan that’s going to give relief to 90% of Americans that are making less than $75,000 a year,” the most diverse and intersectional press secretary in American history claimed.
It’s unclear where Jean-Pierre sourced the claim that 90% of the population making less than $75,000 per year would be positively affected by student loan bailouts, in a country with some 330 million people and a median income of roughly $69,000 per year where less than half of the population has a college degree.
Valiant News rates Jean-Pierre’s claim as false.
Karine Jean-Pierre absurdly claims Biden's student loan debt bailout "gives relief to 90% of Americans that are making less than $75,000/year."
That just isn't true. pic.twitter.com/KQw5nQQKWd
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 26, 2022
In an exchange with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy this week, Jean-Pierre brought up the 90 percent number in the context of the students the handout would actually affect, and not the entire US population as she insinuated on Friday.
Jean-Pierre claimed, “If you look at what this president has done, if you look at the coming end of the fiscal year, $1.7 trillion that we brought down the deficit. That matters, and if you look at the Inflation Reduction Act, it’s going to add another $300 billion going to bring down the deficit again.”
Doocy: "And you might spend $300 billion to $900 billion extra. So, you can do that and not increase the deficit?"
KJP: "Here's the thing. What we are trying to do here — we are doing this responsibly. You heard directly from the President[.]" pic.twitter.com/J7c4IAQKDy
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 24, 2022
Doocy: "But when you forgive debt, you're not just disappearing debt, so who is paying for it?
KJP: "And then I will give you the second part. We have lifted the pause…at the end of this year, which is going to matter…which is going to offset a lot of what we are doing[.]" pic.twitter.com/tT8T4R8g2a
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 24, 2022
Doocy: "But someone is paying for it. Who?"
KJP: "I just–I just laid out. I just laid –"
Doocy: "Who?"
KJP: "–out for you. No, Peter, I just laid out for you how we're seeing this process and why this matters."
Doocy: "Wealthy Americans? Big corporations? Who's paying?" pic.twitter.com/aYsEeYrt2Q
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 24, 2022
She went on, “We are doing this responsibly. You heard directly from the president this is something that is going to be important for middle-class Americans. When you think about 90 percent of the folks who are going to actually benefit from this are making $75,000 or less, and you think about what Republicans did just a couple of years ago, they signed off on a $2 trillion tax cut for the wealthy and did not provide any way to pay for that.”
Roland
August 27, 2022 at 8:10 am
How many times are the mentally deficient Demoncraps going to tout there stupidity and then pat each other on the back with moronic praise?
El-Tejas
August 27, 2022 at 12:46 pm
90%? She must be referring to how it will affect those of us who pay taxes and will have to fund the bailout. Heck, the percentage of average Americans who have gone to college is far less than 90%. And many of those who have gone have already paid off any loans they had or worked their way through college and paid their tuition as they went. Some were even fortunate enough to have savings or parents who paid for them. Where in world did the press secretary come up with her ridiculous numbers? Do they really expect us to believe this nonsense just because they say it?
Gerald Ladd
August 27, 2022 at 6:48 pm
NiggeRATS lie. It’s in their DNA.
Hcatguy
August 29, 2022 at 4:55 am
What a horrible press secretary, she can’t even lie halfway right.