(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stumbled through another press briefing Thursday as reporters peppered her with questions about President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt, according to the Western Journal.
Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked Jean-Pierre how the Biden administration could justify appealing to the COVID pandemic as a “national emergency” warranting debt forgiveness when it has recently argued in court that strict border controls are no longer necessary because the pandemic is over.
“The HEROES Act hinges on student debt cancelation being tied to the pandemic and that being a national emergency, but the administration argued in court that the pandemic is over at the southern border to lift Title 42,” Heinrich said.
“How is COVID a national emergency when it comes to student debt?”
Jean-Pierre’s totally unresponsive response was as incoherent as White House reporters have come to expect — she slogged her way through a laundry list of sympathy-inspiring beneficiaries (including nurses and first responders) and argued that the system was in need of reform.
“It’s a very good question,” Jean-Pierre said. “Look we used The Heroes Act because there are going to be some people, when we lift the pause, who are still going to have a little bit of a hard time, and so that’s one of the reasons that we made this decision.”
Jean-Pierre has elsewhere claimed that the administration is “confident” in legal authority the president claimed he did not have as recently as 2021.
Heinrich pointed out another contradiction in the regime’s rhetoric: the White House has repeatedly insisted that the American economy is doing better than ever (even changing the definition of “recession” to bring the argument home), but then claims that the situation is so desperate that student debt must be forgiven.
Jean-Pierre again had no answer, except to say that “some folks” still need assistance.
