White House Drags House Republican Opposed to Student Debt Relief After He Had $1 Million in PPP Loans Forgiven

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The White House roasted car salesman and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) for grousing about President Joe Biden’s efforts to provide student debt relief, even after the lawmaker had $1 million in government loans forgiven.

On Thursday, Kelly took to X/Twitter to object to Biden’s cancelation of $9 billion in student loan debt for 125,000 borrowers.

“No student loan is forgiven,” Kelly tweeted. “The debt is just transferred onto the backs of the American taxpayers.”

The tweet caught the attention of the White House X/Twitter account.

“Congressional Republican math is complaining about student debt relief while having $987,237 of your own PPP loans forgiven,” the White House wrote.

Kelly has since responded on X/Twitter, defending the loan that he says “saved nearly 200 essential jobs”:

“PPP loans are designed to be forgiven and went directly to employees,” he wrote. “Nice try! By the way, how’s the border wall coming along?”

Believe it or not, it was the second time the White House dragged Kelly over his position on student debt forgiveness. In August 2022, he fired off a similar tweet.

“Asking plumbers and carpenters to pay off the loans of Wall Street advisors and lawyers isn’t just unfair,” Kelly said. “It’s also bad policy.”

The White House had a terser response at the time.

“Congressman Mike Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven,” the account wrote.

Biden has taken several executive actions on student debt after the Supreme Court struck down his plan that would have forgiven up to $20,000 in debt for eligible borrowers.