from capitol hill, julie, what are the details on that? well, this is so interesting, because the student loan payment that and to that pause, as one of the only items of this bill, aside, of, course, from a voting to fall, that americans will actually be able to feel the practical implications of. so, what this bill, this agreement between republicans and president biden does to student loan payments, is able and the pause that americans have been enjoying since march of 2020. since under the former administration, of course, it s a pandemic era policy. by august 30th, combat day in just a few months, students and americans who graduated with student loan debt will once again need to start making payments and they will start facing some interest on top of that that also has been paused for the last several years. our own colleague, lindsey reiser, actually spoke to some students in new york this past week. take a listen to that reaction. i didn t realize it was going to be that so
those back in a timely manner. it s a little nerve-racking. i guess because their interests will start. i m honestly not too worried about it, just because i know with the flexibility, i know it s available for me. on top of paying rent, wherever i m gonna be living on top of college, i have to be worrying about that as well. helen beat the rector the top white house negotiator in the room, did say that this plan that was ultimately included in the compromise version, was not too far off the administrations current plans to end the pause on those payments. separately, though, alex, but bill that republican and democrat has bill, was not successful in including a republican efforts to stop the president from pursuing a separate effort to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debts for millions of americans. of course, the senate did passed a stand-alone version of that bill. the president did veto that. now, that battle will be in the supreme court, where we expect a ruling som
but we can never stop trying, no matter how tough our politics gets, we need to see each other not as adversaries, but as federal americans. that signings actually, eminent in the meantime, a new wrinkle in the doj investigation of donald trump s handling of classified documents, one former trump lawyer, who was involved in the documents investigation, raising the prospect that trump may have been bluffing when he was caught on audio claiming to have a classified iran document. was that really a bluff? was that a real document? we would need to take a look at this hole tape in context, and talk to the witnesses, find out what was going on in the room, find out what he was even talking about. the summer campaign season is kicking off, with republican candidates converging on iowa for today s roasted ride, the annual event hosted by gop senator joni ernst, we re going to have a live report from des moines for you, in just a few minutes. but first, we have two reports on the preside
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