despite a huge interest in getting the money back, they don t think it s likely the government will recoup the stolen money. 17 new york city and state employees were charged with illegally obtaining pandemic relief loans. there s an effort to get some of the money back. we have no idea how much money was stolen in the first place. martha: i m glad to hear somebody this is a crime when you steal money. it s a crime. it s thiefery. it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, especially during a time of emergency when people need that recovery money. it s just absolutely what a disaster. they should be much more concerned about it than they sound in those sound bites. mark, thank you. so president biden today telling americans that the economy is moving in the right direction as he celebrates better than expected job growth in november with companies hiring 263,000 workers. today s job report shows that
and what happened with the russian invasion of ukraine. because i acted, we provided $10,000 in student debt relief. and another 10,000 if you got upheld graham. no one under 20 would have to be making less than 20% a year. and 90% of that money goes to people earning less than $75,000 a year. and, look, it is an incredible burden to carry. so now they re gonna be able to buy homes, start a business, just get a little bit of breathing room. and whatever my republicans like oz and mastriano are talking about, they re trying to stop me. they their hypocrisy is unbelievable. the same aggravations who took hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions of dollars in the pandemic relief loans, had their loans forgiven, are trying now to block student loans. marjorie taylor greene.
in relief loans why given for their state s business owners, $2 trillion in tax cuts to the highest earning businesses and individuals as part of a trump tax giveaway. still, many borrowers are left wondering what s next. here is ka me camila bernal. reporter: this man is expecting a thirmd of his student loan to be forgiven. he s referring to president biden s student loan forgiveness program that would cover $10,000 of his student debt. because while he s been out of college for nine years, he still owes $30,000. i recently married. me and my wife are going to be thinking of purchasing a home. it s all of a sudden right in front of me again because i m thinking about the kind of debt i have and i need to finance my future and get a home. reporter: while the administration was expected to start granting loan discharges as early as sunday a federal
yesterday. the education secretary, not only did he double down on the fact that the white house wants to continue with this plan, i want to read you some of this. he said the same republican attorneys general didn t file lawsuits when pandemic relief loans were forgiven for their state business owners. they didn t oppose $2 trillion in tax cuts to individuals as part of the trump tax giveaway. and they didn t complain when republican members got millions forgiven by the federal government last year. it s only when relief is going to working and middle class americans that these officials have a problem. so, again, no sign that the white house is backing down here as they hope that this issue galvanizes voters, particularly young voters and young voters of color ahead of the midterms.
in the numbers that they ve seen, the internal polls that they ve seen from this student debt relief program that they weren t necessarily expecting. so that s why while we haven t heard the president speak about this debt relief program too much since he initially announced t today he s going big on that topic. he will be announcing an update on this and also going to be going after republican members of congress, calling out what he sees as a hypocrisy for republicans who criticized this plan but at the same time lawmakers who have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief loans that were forgiven by the federal government. that according to a white house official. but in terms of his strategy and why the president is holding more official events to talk about policy than rallies, here is the white house chief of staff, ron klain. both president obama i was here, i will share responsibility for it and president trump got walloped in the midterms. so i do