it s a game changer. we re also fixing what s called, and this has been the bane of driving me crazy when i was out of office. the public service loan forgiveness program. now, this program forgives student loans to encourage those students who have those loans if they go in to public service. think of the millions who are. public school teachers, local police officers, workers at local charities, members of the military and national guard, and so many more, think of the folks who work for federal, state, local, travel governments, keeping essentially services going, respond to go natural disaster, all of those firefighters and cops. the program is designed so if you serve in one of these jobs and be able to list those and be able to accurately assess whether you do, and make your loan payments for ten years, even if it s not consecutive years, your remaining balance will be completely forgiven. it s a great idea but the program is a mess. it s so inefficient, and complicated
enough. plus it is primary tonight in two big states with redistricting in new york forcing out a near 30-year incumbent. and a familiar face to florida voters looks to unseat governor ron desantis. nothing like an election night when numbers start rolling in we start with our chief political anchor bret baier at the big board to break down the races. haitian on lot of activity one of the biggest races we re following is in new york. it s not a primary race it s actually a special election filling an open seat in new york district 19. now, this is looking tonight like democrats are going to pick this up in a republican-leaning district. this is pat ryan versus mark molinaro. ap hasn t called it yet, but it looks like there are not enough votes for mull nair 0 to close this gap. that is big in this environment. pat ryan used choice, he used the overturning of roe v wade as a big part of his campaign. he said on all his signs, choice is on the ballot. a big part of his campai
on a very busy wednesday morning i m todd piro. carley: carley shimkus and marianne rafferty covering all the keys this morning, marianne, good morning. good morning carley and todd appear in primary starting in new york where jerry nadler won decisive victory over congresswoman carolyn maloney after redistricting three term democrats and powerful committee members against each other. meanwhile, the patrick ryan winning a special election and an important swing district. ryan focused his campaign on the supreme court recent ruling of overturning roe v. wade sending clear message to republicans using deceit to flip the house. the newly redrawn 17 congressional district, democratic congressional campaign chair sean patrick maloney defeated progressive challenger state senator alessandro biaggi. he will face g.o.p. assembly member mike waller this november. now to florida s former orlando police chief and current democratic val demings wins her primary and will take on repub
$15,000 of student loans. bill: i would have loved to have been given 10 grand. it could change your life but i signed a contract. a contract. i had to pay it. that was the bill. dana: i was so afraid i couldn t make my next payment that i made two payments at night. i was a waitress. president biden has had to make this decision over and over because he has hemmed and hawed about it. right now today he is expected to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for americans making less than $125,000 per year. he will also reportedly extend the pause on loan repayments until after the mid-terms even though apparently we have the best job market in history. bill: taxpayers will foot the bill for all of this. it will cost anywhere between $300 billion at the low end and upwards of $980 billion at the high-end depending the decision he makes. dana: the price tag is raising alarm bells on both sides of the aisle. critics are calling it a hand-out that will do more harm than good
the winner of the democratic primary is very, very likely the next member of congress throughout this week. we have a new youngest member of the house representatives in january. he was on this program last night, we are going to try to find him somewhere in the celebration at the end of the hour. see if we can get a couple of minutes with him on the phone at the end of this hour tonight. it is a good news story. i love it, jen see in the house. it is time, this is what changes democracy lawrence. it really is. find that maxwell frost. that age group good that wind. have a great show. thanks alex, thank you. well, donald trump s continuing unsolvable lifetime problem is that stupid attracts stupid. that is why don trump has always been surrounded by stupidity. now that donald trump has painted himself into the corner of the first ex president under multiple criminal investigations, donald trump is surrounded now by nothing but stupid. that is why the trump sycopha