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‘Now do student loans!’ KJP offers doozy of an insulting lecture on paying your debts

May 9, 2023 | | Print Article

Washington is playing the same debt limit song and dance that has been playing out for years, where politicians attempt to dupe voters before both sides come together and agree to even more government spending and a greater national debt that their grandchildren will have to contend with one day.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre employed an interesting analogy on Monday to justify the Biden administration’s refusal to entertain cuts offered by the Republican-led House in exchange for bumping the debt limit — the national debt currently stands at $31.5 trillion, an increase of more than $20 trillion since Barack Obama took office in January 2009.

Asked by a reporter about any expectation of movement on negotiations, KJP offered a kitchen table approach that’s rarely applied in other Democratic pursuits.

“Let’s look at this for the American people who are trying to figure out — who may not know what is it that we’re talking about. So let’s look at it through the American families’ eyes for a second,” Jean-Pierre said, her contempt for regular folks palpable.

“If you buy a car, you are expected to pay the monthly payments. If you buy a home, you are expected to pay the mortgage every month. That is the expectation. That is the spending that you put forth or spending that you may have done before, and now you’re paying every month,” she explained. “If you do not pay your car payment, if you do not pay your mortgage payment, then your credit is going to be bad. It’s going to hurt your credit.”

Her answer to the family that can’t afford to pay their car payment is to borrow even more money.

Putting the onus on Congress to shut up and increase the debt limit, the president’s diversity hire stressed this is spending “that they’ve already done, they’ve already spent,” citing the Trump tax cuts.

“So we’re telling them — or saying to them: Do your job. Pay for something that you’ve already spent on. That’s it,” Jean-Pierre added. “This is spending that has already occurred. They need to do the right thing that has been done 78 times since 1960. It’s that simple. It is very, very simple. It is the right thing to do. It is their constitutional duty. It is not complicated at all.”

Former Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos weighed in with a suggestion of her own, telling KJP: “Now do students loans.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen in Twitter:

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