AOC had at least $15K in student loan debt while pushing handout: filing

Progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez carried 1000’s of {dollars} in pupil mortgage debt final yr, new monetary disclosures present.

Throughout that point, the Bronx and Queens congresswoman was pining for mass pupil mortgage cancellation, publicly urging the Biden administration to make use of unconstitutional government motion to perform it.

“I’m 32 years outdated now,” Ocasio-Cortez complained on the House floor in December 2021. “I’ve over $17,000 in pupil mortgage debt, and I didn’t go to graduate faculty as a result of I knew that getting one other diploma would drown me in debt that I’d by no means have the ability to surpass. That is unacceptable.”

The most recent disclosure, filed on Sunday, reveals AOC held between $15,001 and $50,000 in debt in 2022.

Ocasio-Cortez, who graduated from Boston College in 2011 with a bachelor’s diploma in worldwide relations and economics, earned a minimum of $174,000 in wage earlier than taxes final yr.

In August 2022, President Biden rolled out a sweeping pupil mortgage plan that was scuttled by the Supreme Court this past June.

The plan, which the justices dominated couldn’t be enacted with out congressional approval, would have forgiven as much as $10,000 in federal debt for people with incomes below $125,000, in addition to as much as $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.

Undeterred, Biden moved forward Monday with an alternative plan to cancel $39 billion in pupil mortgage debt for greater than 800,000 debtors after a Michigan federal choose dismissed a lawsuit geared toward blocking it.

Ocasio-Cortez has implored Biden to pause pupil mortgage repayments for a full 12 months earlier than they’re as a consequence of resume Oct. 1 after a greater than three-year moratorium as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

“There are thousands and thousands of individuals on this nation which have pupil mortgage debt below … $10,000 or $20,000, as outlined within the plan,” Ocasio-Cortez informed CNN again in July following the Supreme Courtroom ruling.

“I extremely urge the administration to think about suspending these curiosity funds. After all, we nonetheless consider in pursuing pupil mortgage cancellation and appearing sooner than that 12-month interval wherever potential.” 

A rep for AOC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.