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JOE BIDEN CALLS ON 2022 NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES TO BE DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY

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President Joe Biden on Friday called on this year's graduating class at the US
Naval Academy to be "defenders of democracy" in an address outlining the many
challenges the world and the graduates now face, including Russia's war on
Ukraine. The President reiterated his oft-used line that the nation faces an
"inflection point" as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the global
supply chain crisis, inflation, an accelerating climate crisis and Russia's
unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Joe Biden calls on 2022 Naval Academy graduates
to be 'defenders of democracy' amid mounting global challenges "The challenges
we face and the choices we make are more consequential than ever," Biden said at
the commencement address in Annapolis, Maryland. Biden called Putin's actions "a
direct assault on the fundamental tenets of rules-based international order.
That's what you're graduating into." He said the world "more than ever requires
strong, principled, engaged American leadership. Where America leads not only by
the example of its power, but the power of its example." The President touted
the importance of working with allies, and said strengthening partnerships
around the world is the kind of work the graduates will need to embark on. He
noted Asia, a continent he just returned from, in particular is "a region that
will be vital to the future of our world." He outlined the "global response" to
the war in Ukraine, he pointed to the countries standing with the US in placing
sanctions on Russia, including NATO countries, Australia, and Japan. The
President spoke in his remarks of Naval Academy graduate former Sen. John
McCain, with whom he said he disagreed politically but was a dear friend. "Being
here I can't help think of John. And how the Naval Academy meant so much to him.
He chose these grounds for his final resting place. John was an American hero
who withstood torture, years of being held as a prisoner of war, and when he
came home -- he wanted to continue to serve," he said. Biden said, "He always
lived by a code, the same code that you all have been taught. It's not just
words, it's real: Duty, honor, loyalty." "I hope you'll keep the memory of the
example of academy graduates like my friend John McCain close in your hearts as
you embark on your commissions," he said. The President also spoke of his son
Beau, who was an Iraq War veteran and died of brain cancer in 2015. "This
education has, at times, pushed the edge of what you thought was possible to
develop you morally, mentally, and physically. And it was worth it all because
today you stand ready to assume the title you've been working toward for so
long: Ensign, United States Navy," Biden said. "This great academy has prepared
you to face any challenge and overcome any obstacle. You are ready. My wish to
you is fair winds and following seas," he said, thanking them for their service.
Joe Biden nears decision on student loans as inflation worries mount Top White
House aides have drafted the order for canceling some student loan debt, but
they're still waiting for President Joe Biden to make up his mind on whether to
go forward with it. A pair of commencement speeches scheduled for this weekend
might seem like a perfect setting for an announcement, but White House aides
expect that the President will only touch on the subject then. The aides are
still expecting that a final decision will take more time. For months, internal
conversations have circled around whether the President actually has the legal
authority to unilaterally cancel loans, not to mention Biden's own continuing
skepticism that canceling loans violates principles forged as a pre-Baby Boomer
representing a state that's the homeland of consumer debt. Biden and aides have
also long been worried that the right answer to Republican attacks that
Democrats are all about government handouts and catering to elites isn't to be
seen as handing out money to the most highly educated. That's what's led them to
eye a $125,000 annual income limit for forgiveness, believing that limit is both
in line with the progressive income tax model and good politics. Biden is
considering canceling some student debt. Here's why it might not be such a great
idea In recent weeks, though, people involved tell CNN that nearly every
internal conversation about what to do has eventually turned to asking if
canceling the debt will feed inflation just at the moment when Democrats are
hoping the rates will start to tick down ahead of the midterms. After spending
much of 2021 worried that they weren't going big enough in the face of the
crisis, the economic situation -- including the threat of tipping into a
recession by next year -- has Biden and his inner circle nervous about going any
bigger at all. Forces inside and outside the White House are urging Biden to
announce his cancellation decision jointly with what is expected to be an end to
the moratorium on student loan payments, which was started during the pandemic
under the Trump administration and, after two Biden extensions, is set to expire
on August 31. The goal is to make the dual announcement by early summer so that
borrowers can prepare. Outside the White House, multiple Democrats involved see
a familiar Biden pattern playing out again: Letting himself be defined by the
long and tortured process rather than the end result, while agreeing to a
priority of his party's liberal wing but with a compromise that feeds complaints
that his heart's not really in it. In a midterm environment where Democrats
could use all the help they could get, they say, Biden's wavering is sapping
himself of whatever political benefit he could get, particularly among younger
and Black voters who would statistically benefit the most from forgiveness and
whose enthusiasm for Democrats has plummeted. "Every day that he drags on -- he
may end up doing the right thing and not getting the appropriate credit," said
Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who was a co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders'
2020 presidential campaign and says progressives need to accept a middle ground
on this issue. "If he announces it, and says 'I'm doing it,' he looks decisive
and gets the political credit." Some progressive leaders, sensing they're not
going to get all they want, are already gearing up to voice their
disappointment, even if Biden goes with a final decision that would be higher
than the $10,000 in forgiveness he promised to support during the 2020 campaign.
Some are still pushing for as much as $50,000 in relief, though few involved in
discussions have ever believed that was possible. Instead, they've been pushing
back against any income-level means test, arguing that could cut out thousands
of deserving borrowers who either don't receive the benefit because of
government bureaucracy, or who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in
loans that they're still buckling under despite higher salaries now. How would
Biden canceling student loan debt affect you? Tell us "The longer the
administration waits -- apparently because they are figuring out how many people
to exclude from a cancelation program -- the less appreciative people are going
to be, because they're continuing to struggle this entire time," said Rep.
Mondaire Jones, a progressive Democrat from New York who spoke about student
debt cancellation with Biden during a meeting in the White House's Roosevelt
Room last month. But Jones said he could be satisfied with $10,000 in
forgiveness, arguing that this could be pitched as money that's offsetting
inflationary increases in other spending that borrowers have had to worry about.
"People will feel a material improvement in their lives with $10,000 or more in
debt relief -- that's $10,000 or more that they would not have had but for the
President's cancellation," he said. Close as Biden seems to making an
announcement, the conversations have still been caught up, in part, by the
basics. Part of Biden's meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Raphael Warnock at the White House last week was
consumed by them making the case again that he needs to think more broadly about
how many, and what sort of, people would be affected by forgiveness. In
conversations with Biden and top aides like White House chief of staff Ron
Klain, Warren's favorite statistics include stressing that only 2% of Harvard
students graduate with debt but half do at the University of Delaware -- which
just happens to be the President's alma mater and one of the schools he'll be
addressing this weekend. She'll point out that 91% of students at historically
Black colleges and universities graduate with loans. She'll point out how many
people have student debt who never even finished enough courses to complete
their degrees, and the disproportionate racial breakdown that, by her numbers,
have just 6% of White borrowers still paying off loans after 20 years, compared
to 96% of Black borrowers. There's a direct political ramification of how many
people the forgiveness can touch depending on whether Biden lands at $10,000,
$20,000 or higher, Warren stresses. And as for the argument that canceling by
executive authority could be challenged in court, she argues that the government
is the holder of the contracts, so Republicans or other opponents to the move
would have to find someone to say he or she was harmed in order to sue to stop
the move. Jones, Warren and others have repeatedly pointed out to the White
House that Biden used his authority to defer payments and no Republicans sued
over that. Warnock -- trying to hold onto his Senate seat in Georgia in the fall
-- centered his argument to Biden on who in Georgia would be included in
forgiveness, telling the President about all the people who talk to him after
Sunday services at his home church in Atlanta. Inflation looms over the decision
Other leaders on the Hill have been trying to calibrate pressure on the White
House. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, while not part of the conversation
with Biden last week, spent her time whipping support for a letter from the full
Congressional Black Caucus timed to the meeting declaring that "the student loan
debt crisis is a racial and economic justice issue disproportionately impacting
Black communities across the nation." While the CBC letter didn't include a
specific number, Pressley has been clear about what she would consider
acceptable, saying that $10,000 per borrower would barely cover interest for
some of the most burdened borrowers, and that the approximately $250 billion
cumulatively that would cover would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $2
trillion in student debt in America. Inflation anxiety is circulating among
progressives as well. "He should cancel all of it. The problem is inflation
might shoot up because we don't yet have guardrails in place for price gouging,"
said New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Reflecting some of the wariness among
Democratic moderates in his chamber about cancellation, Schumer has not called a
show vote on the issue, despite attending the latest White House meeting and
repeatedly calling for Biden to make the move. Biden pressured to act White
House aides have been having trouble lately concealing their own tedium at
telling reporters over and over that there's still no decision on the issue. A
White House spokesperson reiterated that Biden's extending the moratorium on
payments means that for 41 million borrowers, "no one has been required to pay a
single dime of student loans since the President took office," with $18.5
billion in targeted debt relief to more than 750,000 borrowers who meet the
requirements of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Aides are sensitive
to the idea that Biden is seen as having promised to eliminate debt while on the
campaign trail, even though his statement then was just that he was in favor of
doing so -- not that he'd do it himself. The spokesperson added, "The President
continues to support forgiveness of $10,000 through congressional action." But
with the midterms looming and not much faith among Democrats in the White House
or beyond for more wins in Congress between now and the fall, operatives are
pressing Biden to move where he can. Data for Progress, a progressive polling
firm, has found wide support for cancellation -- but not a significant
difference between canceling $10,000 and $50,000 among Democrats. It's not that
there are likely many single-issue student debt voters, said the firm's
political director, Marcela Mulholland. Instead, it's an issue for enthusiasm.
"It's really clear that we need to be delivering tangible, real wins for our
base," Mulholland said. "The way the administration has gone about it so far, of
being lukewarm and flip-floppy, has meant that the people who are against
forgiveness are upset that student loan payments haven't been resumed, and the
people who want student debt (forgiveness) are disappointed he hasn't done it."
For many Democrats outside the progressive wing of the party, that's not the
only problem. "We're on a path to 30% approval if the White House keeps up this
pretense that Covid is over at the border but not for people with college debt,"
said one Democratic strategist involved in multiple midterm campaigns, referring
first to the administration trying to push back against ending the Title 42
pandemic restrictions on immigration. "Voters know when Covid is being used as
cover for policy wish fulfillment." For all the insider focus on the process so
far, Mulholland argued that Biden still has an opportunity to capitalize on the
overwhelming majority of voters who never tune into the Washington
back-and-forth. "What makes it into most voters' consciousness," Mulholland
said, "is the decision at the end of the day: 'Do I have to make my student loan
payments or not?'"




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