Biden administration had to have known what they were getting into, says CNN's John Sutter. "This just feels like another reminder that it's really hard to push your agenda without legislation in this country," he adds. Biden tried to expand the child tax credit and pitched free universal childcare but those ideas got stuck in a divided Senate.
President Biden’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in student debt is both historic and controversial. Now some red states are suing to block it. NPR’s Cory Turner explains.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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