presented itself over christmas. the problem remains the problem. a number of progressive thinkers have proposed ways to use executive authority to solve problems that they have not been able to solve legislatively. for example, elizabeth warren, senator elizabeth warren and others have suggested that the president could unilaterally with the spoke stroke of his pen forgive a large amount, not all, but a large amount of student debt in this country. so they are fighting for that to relieve student debt or cancel large amounts of student debt. there are other areas in which they believe joe biden can stretch the limits of executive authority and do that that would, of course, be an admission that they have failed to actually pass it through congress. i m not sure that biden, who does have an essential caution in him would be willing to go along with some of these plans. susan, we saw on president obama s term the pen and the