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Oye said
So, the push was for $10,000 forgiveness on all loans. Students would be responsible for the rest, but would be able to defer (without accruing interest) until they were able to start paying again.

The Republicans rejected any forgiveness, in any amount, outright.

The result was a period of 6-months for deferral and private collection agencies had to stop calling and seeking to collect payment from borrowers.

I was a bit underwhelmed when I saw that, but hey... that's what passes today

Hopefully they can bring some of that back. It's not full loan forgiveness. It's like a boost to help cover what they didn't cover before with their inadequate funding and controls on spending.

I know they'll argue about how it's not fair to those that did pay loans, but the payments to all americans isn't fair either, for those of us still working and/or drawing a pay check.