WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.-07), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.-05), and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.-24) urged U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to leverage his authority under the Higher Education Act to provide expanded student debt relief to working and middle-class borrowers. The letter comes in response to an initial draft of the proposed rule and ahead of the final session of the negotiated rulemaking (neg-reg) process that would limit student debt relief to four specific subsets of borrowers.
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