Late-night host Bill Maher criticized President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, and guests agreed that the political ploy hasn’t changed his poll numbers.
The comedian, 68, said the pardon plans are particularly offensive to him amid the rampant anti-Israel protests occupying college campuses across the country, as he sees them as “supporting Jew-hatred.”
“So colleges constantly raise tuition, then kids take out more loans, and then the government comes and pays off those loans,” he said.
‘So, my tax money is supporting this Jew-hatred? I do not think.’
Late-night host Bill Maher sharply criticized President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, saying he sees it as “supporting Jewish hate” amid anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
Biden’s debt relief plan is estimated to cost between $870 billion and $1.2 trillion, but was condemned as a “political move” that has not paid off.
On his HBO show ‘Real Time with Bill Maher,’ the comedian noted that Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan is estimated to cost between $870 billion and $1.2 trillion.
The White House redoubled its efforts again this week, announcing Wednesday that it canceled $6 billion in debt for borrowers who attended the Art Institutes between 2004 and 2017.
That brought total forgiveness so far to $160 billion for 4.6 million borrowers ahead of the November election.
Some analysts see Biden’s debt relief campaign as an attempt to turn around his plummeting poll numbers, particularly among young voters, where Donald Trump has taken a surprising lead in several polls.
In November, Trump took his first lead over Biden among young voters in an NBC poll, where he topped the current 46 percent to 42 percent among voters ages 18 to 34.
Maher and his guests, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg national correspondent Joshua Green, agreed that they don’t have high hopes that the debt relief plan will work for Biden.
“Plumbers and pipe fitters cannot be allowed to pay off the student loans of doctors and lawyers,” Conway said. ‘It’s not fair.
“I’m all for the government trying to help people who need it, but they did it as a political move and everyone knows it.”
The disastrous polling news for President Joe Biden continues to pile up, as a new poll suggests his predecessor, Donald Trump, is even leading him in the polls among voters under 35.
Biden’s poll numbers have fallen among young voters, and his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas is seen as a key reason. Pictured: Student protesters on the New York University campus on April 23, 2024.
Green chimed in, saying the tactic “hasn’t worked.”
“If you look at the issues that young people care about, Gaza is 15th out of 16, and the only thing below Gaza is student loan forgiveness,” he said.
“So it hasn’t worked as a motivator for the youth vote, half of whom are shouting ‘Genocide Joe,’ so it’s been counterproductive not only in terms of public policy, but also in terms of politics.”
Referring to a recent CNN poll, Maher said: “Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by, I think, 11 points, that’s pretty surprising to me.”
Green said this may be because the media focuses on anti-Israel protests much more than on issues that could be damaging to Republicans, such as the trial of Donald Trump in New York.
“What I think about this is that if you turn on your television today, you see young people protesting, angry, fighting with the police,” Green said.
“All of these stories that could potentially be damaging to Republicans in helping Joe Biden have fallen by the wayside because all the attention is on these protesters and these fights and their behavior and the fact that a lot of people don’t do it.” “. They don’t like what they see on television.
Maher and his guests, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg national correspondent Joshua Green, said Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan won’t reverse his poor polls.
He noted that Biden was “elected to put aside the chaos and havoc of the Trump years,” and Conway chimed in that Trump’s chaos was “in a tweet…now it’s chaos and crisis everywhere we look.”
“On the border, on our college campuses, certainly, in our halls of Congress, 31 Democrats voted against the resolution last October 18 to condemn Hezbollah and Hamas,” he said.
‘And the resolution said clearly, Bill, that they were concerned that higher education institutions were allowing sympathies for Hezbollah and Hamas, which our own government, the Biden administration and the Trump administration have declared terrorist groups.
‘They specifically said there that it was going to hurt, make uncomfortable, if not worse, Jewish students with all this anti-Semitism.
‘That was October 18th! Thirty-one Democrats, including the most well-known young people, the No Squat Team, for example, all voted against that resolution.
