while president biden said only he can stand in their way. here with me now is democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez. thank you very much for joining me this morning. let s start with the student loan decision. chief justice john robert said the constitution does not allow the president the power to unilaterally forgive student loans. it s up to you in congress to make this kind of sweeping change. early in his presidency, i think you remember even president biden said he doesn t have that authority. what s your response to the court s decision? you know, what the court was also ruling on was with respect to the heroes act, but our response is very strong in that congress has given the president that authority in the higher education in the higher education act. the president very squarely has, as well, using his secretary of education the ability to cancel student loans, but as we ve seen not just in what we saw ruled
problem. in other words, sending these kinds of things to the courts and sending these kinds of things to state legislatures for the clear purpose at chipping away at the equality and the rights that have so recently been won in the lgbtq+ community and when you do that it s at the expense of so many other issues that americans are asking for relief and support on, the kinds of economic issues that president biden was emphasizing on the bidenomics about how to keep unemployment so low, and how we continue lowering costs for american families and the fact that this was relief from a situation that may have never happened in the first place tells you everything you need to know about this agenda to use every instrument of government, courts and legislatures, to claw back at these rights for people who were just trying to go about their lives and just trying to be treated equally by businesses and by the government. mr. secretary, ron desantis campaign tweeted a video
ketanji brown, we saw that her dissent was grounded in fact. it was grounded in the facts of the case. it did not disparage clarence thomas overall world view, but as a matter of fact a nuanced critique of his analysis of the facts of the case, but for him to come out and insinuate that her opinion is due to some sort of inferior or less than you know, less than really thought out of a stance, i think it s profoundly insulting, and i think that he really demonstrated his character, frankly, and his world view in that critique himself. congresswoman, you ve called on president biden to expand the supreme court to 13 justices, and even after roe was overruled last year and this past week what we saw with affirmative action and other cases, i want
pass the bill. we started with congress and congress failed to act and that s where we ended up where we were and to say let s go back to congress, a congress that as you just said isn t willing to get anything done. i m not sure the republican party has views on how to reduce the debt and the president is showing himself in friction in fight in a healthy what i and he ll take on a system that isn t helping a lot of people and people are drowning if debt, whether you re a student, and medical debt or car loan debt. you re struggling to get advancement in this generation of young kids, and he understands and feels it. you can go and talk to regular people about this, governor, and it will resonate. people understand what he s talking about. i have a great eight-year track record and to say republicans isn t doing anything about student debt just isn t true. look, we spent eight years trying to make college more affordable at our universities and community colleges and we took acti