Democrats call on Biden to wipe out student loans for defrauded borrowers

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Top congressional Democrats are putting pressure on President Joe Biden to void student loan debt for hundreds of thousands of borrowers who were defrauded by predatory schools before the president leaves office.

Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) held a press conference alongside a group of student loan activists on Wednesday calling on the Biden administration to act with urgency to issue debt relief to students who attended predatory schools or were harmed by school misconduct before the Trump administration takes over in January.

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