USA Today: Biden played politics with abortion and national defense. Tuberville is right to fight it.
Last fall, President Joe Biden issued an urgent order to the Pentagon. It wasn’t a strategic response to the war raging in Europe or the new Cold War heating up across the Pacific. Instead, he had Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin create special employment benefits (paid leave and travel reimbursements) to help military employees pay for abortions. The response this […]
ABC 33/40: Sen. Tuberville introduces GOAL Act to cap federal student loans and tackle rising education costs
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has proposed legislation that aims to lower the cost of higher education by capping the amount federal students graduate students can take out. His GOAL Act is a part of the Republican backed legislation, “Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act. “He believes the bill will not only put an end to the extreme amount of loans […]
CBS News: With student loan forgiveness in limbo, here’s how the GOP wants to fix college debt
Millions of Americans with student debt are in limbo as they wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program. But in the meantime, some Republican lawmakers are proposing their own methods for tackling what they describe as the “skyrocketing” cost of college. The Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, introduced on Wednesday by […]
Newsweek: Supreme Court Student Debt Cancellation Decision Sparks Dueling Proposals
Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday issued dueling proposals aimed to deal with the inordinate costs and processes associated with higher education, though both plans are vastly different in their approaches. The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision this week on whether the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, which would erase federal student loan debt for […]
Washington Examiner: Senate Republicans unveil plan to cut down on high college costs
A group of Senate Republicans introduced a series of bills Wednesday that they say will help address problems in higher education that have led to sky-high costs and exorbitant student debt. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tim Scott (R-SC), and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced five bills in the Senate that would impose a number of […]
Fox News: GOP rolls out student loan plan as Biden’s $400 billion handout faces Supreme Court test
Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a new plan to address rising student debt and the soaring cost of college just as President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan handout is expected to be struck down in the Supreme Court. Instead of trying to forgive loans as Biden did, Senate Republicans are supporting programs aimed at […]