Biden accused of using student loan forgiveness program to PAY pro-Palestine ... trends now
Republicans are blasting Biden's student loan forgiveness plan for providing millions of taxpayer dollars to the students wreaking havoc at anti-Israel protests nationwide.
Over 200 protestors have been arrested in the last week on the campuses of Columbia University and New York University (NYU) in connection to their aggressive campaigning against the Israel-Hamas war.
The protestors - who are demanding that the universities divest from Israeli entities and for an end to the war in Gaza - have set up camps chock-full of tents, makeshift food distribution areas, sleeping bags and anti-Israel signs.
Now, Republicans are using the protests as a cudgel to slam Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program, claiming that the president wants to pay the protestors' bills.
The GOP criticism comes weeks after Biden wiped out an additional $7.4 billion in debt for 277,000 borrowers, bringing the total he has forgiven to $153 billion.
'The Biden administration wants hardworking taxpayers to pay off the loans of these pro-terrorist antisemites, which in turn funds universities with multibillion-dollar endowments that are refusing to keep Jewish students safe,' House Republican Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told DailyMail.com in a statement.
NYPD officers face protestors after detaining demonstrators and clearing an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students and protesters on the campus of New York University
'If the Biden administration cared about the dangerous wave of antisemitic violence on our college campuses, they would reverse their unconstitutional course and instead demand action from these broken institutions.'
'But they don’t care; the only thing that matters to Biden is appeasing his radical base,' Emmer added.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., posted a video of the Columbia University encampment showing tents and pro-Palestinian signs and banners on X, 'these are the people whose student loans Joe Biden wants you to pay off,' he wrote.
'Hamas butchered and burned Jews and their babies alive; their bodies paraded around in the streets,' Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., posted on X.
'Today in the US, we have entitled little Ivy
