Biden’s Latest Student Loan Debt Relief to Cost $84 Billion, Penn Wharton Estimates

Total cost of the SAVE Plan is $559 billion.
Biden’s Latest Student Loan Debt Relief to Cost $84 Billion, Penn Wharton Estimates
President Joe Biden speaks during a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Rose Garden of the White House on April 10, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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President Joe Biden’s new student loan debt relief proposal will cost tens of billions of dollars in addition to the $475 billion projected for the administration’s SAVE (Saving on a Valuable Education) plan, according to a new study.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) has estimated that attached to the White House’s five provisions in the recently announced initiative is an $84 billion price tag. In total, the final 10-year bill would cost about $559 billion.

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