“President Biden can #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen.”
What PolitiFact found
Those advocating student debt relief say the law allows President Biden do it by executive order. But the law may not allow him to accomplish this goal so easily, experts say.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chuck Schumer (Senate Majority Leader) made this claim around 9 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 June 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Possible, but no legal slam dunk”.
Chuck Schumer has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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