Tuesday 6 September 2022 11:38 PM Democratic Senator Manchin slams Biden's 'excessive' student loan forgiveness ... trends now
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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is weighing in with criticism against President Joe Biden's college debt relief plan, joining other centrists who have taken shots at the move.
'I just think there's a better way to do it. You have to earn it,' he told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday, joining GOP criticism of the plan that wipes away college loans for people who meet income thresholds.
Manchin provided crucial support for Biden's Inflation Adjustment Act, which the White House sold in part by pointing to an expected $300 billion in debt relief funded in part through a new surtax on stock buybacks.
Biden gave him the pen when he inked the deal into law, and had Manchin back at the White House last week for another event.
'I just think there's a better way to do it,' West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said of President
