AOC calls out student-loan forgiveness as one of the issues ‘left unsaid’ during Biden’s State of the Union

AOC calls out student-loan forgiveness as one of the issues ‘left unsaid’ during Biden’s State of the Union

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noticed President Joe Biden didn't mention the student debt crisis during his State of the Union — and she said it might translate to poor turnout at the polls. "There are some things that were left unsaid that we are really going to have to work on as a party, in order to really speak to constituencies that have historically supported the president, whose turnout we need, whose support we need right now and in the coming years, that perhaps haven't heard their issues spoken to in the way that they wanted to hear it," Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC Tuesday night. "Things like student loan debt, the larger themes and crises in education, as well as the piece on immigration was really just glossed over," she added. Amid a nearly two year pause on student-loan payments, many Democratic and hoped Biden would address the $1.7 trillion student debt crisis impacting 45 million Americans during his national address. But, as Insider , student debt was entirely unmentioned, and the president just briefly touched on higher education issues, like increasing the maximum Pell Grant award and supporting free community college. While Biden recently the pause on payments a