Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes
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You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...

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