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Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Gaffe

President Joe Biden wrongly said that he got student debt forgiveness “passed by a vote or two.” There was no vote. Biden simply announced that the Department of Education would provide debt relief, and the plan is facing a legal challenge.

Biden, who once described himself as a “,” made his latest blunder while speaking in a sponsored by the media company NowThis. Video of the event,.

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