[Forbes] In a major update, the Education Department has restored online access to a key application for borrowers looking to continue pursuing student loan forgiveness as certain programs remain cut off.
For the last two months, there has been no online access to the application for Income-Driven Repayment. This has prevented borrowers impacted by recent court rulings from applying to change their repayment plan. And it has also interfered with borrowers’ obligations to recertify their income annually for existing IDR plans.
IDR is a collection of individual plans that base monthly payments on a borrower’s income, with the potential for student loan forgiveness after a certain period of time (typically, 20 or 25 years). IDR is also a critical component of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF, as most borrowers must be enrolled in an IDR plan in order to make qualifying PSLF payments. PSLF can allow for student loan forgiveness in as little as 10 years for borrowers who work in the nonprofit or public sectors. If you own Garland and the Justice Department, you can do whatever you want with total impunity.
#2
To praphrase Andrew Jackson "the Court has made its decision. Now let us see them enforce it. "
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^ establish a precedent that future executives can follow. They always scream bloody murder when the other side does what they've been doing all along.
[NYPOST] Gov. Kathy Hochul is intent on filling top posts in Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... ' administration as City Hall turns into the ''Titanic'' — but insiders say she won't push out the mayor before the election for fear of backlash.
Exercising the governor's authority to oust the embattled Adams would carry outsize political risks for Hochul, including alienating black leaders who've rallied behind Hizzoner and the unsavory potential of her former boss, Andrew Sonny Cuomo, jumping into the mayoral race, sources said.
Hochul is likely also smarting from Rep. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... bluntly blaming her for 2022 losses in New York congressional races that cost Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... their House majority, said political strategist Hank Sheinkopf.
''The trick here is to not remove [Adams] before next June, if possible, so you don't provide the opportunity for someone like Andrew Cuomo to come into power,'' he said. ''She is worried about suburban black votes.
NYC Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright resigns
[NYPOST] First Deputy Mayor of New York City Sheena Wright officially resigned Tuesday — the latest high-profile departure in an administration that's been rattled by a sweeping federal corruption case.
News of Wright's imminent resignation broke last Friday, with one source saying ''she's leaving because she's being shown the door.''
She will be replaced by Maria Torres-Springer, the city's deputy mayor for housing.
[FOX] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser in California, a move some Democrats have advocated for in the past after election defeats.
Walz was in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's private home in Sacramento when he remarked about the process by which U.S. presidents are elected.
"I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go," he said, according to a pool report at the event, Bloomberg reported. "We need a national popular vote, but that's not the world we live in."
Even if it could be done, it could not be done in time to change the 2024 presidential race.
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You think 25 states are going to allow themselves to be ruled by a dozen major metropolitan areas? If you undo the Constitution, you dissolve the union to its prior condition of independent sovereign states.
#9
You've seen how it works - MN votes DFL because of Minneapolis/Hennepin Co. 90% of other counties vote no to DFL. DFL ruins the state in one legislative session. Electoral College is the only thing stopping that from happening at the national level.
#10
There are only about 62 or 63 counties that could decide the outcome of a national election in quantity of votes cast. The other 4,000+ don't have as many voters in aggregate.
That's why the Electoral College is so important.
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#3 They want it oh so bad - which means we're most likely gonna do that dance. Their thought process is little more than that of your average jihadi.
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So, if you abolish the electoral college, you have to switch to proportional representation.
Senile he may be, but he still knows how to stick a knife in a back, and he clearly still nurtures a grudge just fine.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Joe Biden stepped on Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on The View on Tuesday when he praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' for 'doing a great job' with Hurricane Milton preparations.
Biden made the remarks during a dueling appearance with the vice president who less than 24 hours earlier criticized the Republican governor as powerful Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida.
Harris and DeSantis publicly butted heads on Monday when they accused each other of playing politics after DeSantis did not take calls from the vice president.
But in an update on hurricane preparedness on Tuesday, Biden said he has spoken to 'all political leaders in the region' and some of them more than once and shared that he gave DeSantis his personal phone number.
#3
Just got a report from a nephew in Ashville. Electricity is on now (after 10 day outage), water is still unusable. Gasoline and food supply locations, guarded by armed men, military, etc. Little or no media coverage. Things appear to be a bit worse than reported.
[SpectatorUK] Somebody give Bill Whitaker a prize. In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired last night, the CBS correspondent did what no other journalist has successfully done since the Vice President was thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket: journalism. He asked Harris challenging questions about the matters voters care about most. He was civil, unaggressive, but professional enough to push her for clear answers. And Harris just couldn’t cope. Her performance was Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness.
On immigration, for instance, Whitaker asked Harris why the Biden-Harris administration had only recently started tackling the issue, after almost four years and an unprecedented surge in illegal border crossings. Harris robotically blamed Congress and Donald Trump, ‘who wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem so he told his buddies in Congress “kill the bill, don’t let it move forward”.’
Whitaker was not deterred. ‘But there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration,’ he continued. ‘As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen immigration policies as much you do did?’
That caused the Harris-bot to malfunction. ‘It’s a long standing problem,’ she warbled. ‘And solutions are at hand and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions…’
So Whitaker interrupted: ‘What I was asking was, was it a mistake to allow that kind of flood to happen in the first place?’
‘I think the policies that we have been promoting have been about fixing a problem not promoting a problem,’ she added.
‘But the numbers did quadruple under your watch?’ tried Whitaker, again.
Harris, ruffled, returned to square one: ‘And the numbers today…because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration, we have cut the flow of fentanyl, but we need Congress to act.’
Oh dear. That’s Harris’s overwhelming weakness as a political candidate. She can talk in soundbites and managerial slogans about ‘solutions not problems’ but on issues of substance she can’t actually offer any solutions, which is a problem.
#5
The fact that 60 Minutes ambushed her and aired the interview is the opposite of everything I have some to expect from CBS. I could see them doing this during the primaries if they had an alternative candidate.
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I don't think that he so much as 'ambushed' her Sr. Hose, he just asked actual journalist type questions.
Of course, that in itself is rather interesting.
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Red on red. If I'd known it would be that much fun I might have watched with a nice, hot bowl of popcorn. Do they know something at CBS about how this election will go? Are they not afraid of her because they know she's going down in flames? Are they afraid of Trump because they know he's going to win? This is puzzling.
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Her vacuous stupidity and CBS's journalistic dishonesty on full display, despite the 60 minutes removal of the actual answer!
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...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
