For Immediate Release: May 1, 2024 

Contact: press@borrowersaction.org

 

AS GRADUATION SEASON KICKS OFF, LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER'S EXTREMISM WILL KEEP TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS, FAMILIES DROWNING IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT 

 

As students and families across Oregon's 5th Congressional District prepare to celebrate the college graduating class of 2024, Lori Chavez-DeRemer and House Republicans remain hell-bent on robbing their own constituents of much-needed student loan debt relief and making student loans more expensive for millions of Americans.

 

While President Biden has worked to use every legal tool available to him to provide more student debt relief—approving $153 billion in student debt relief for more than 4 million Americans, with more to come— Lori Chavez-DeRemer worked to convince the Supreme Court to block debt relief for more than 86,000 eligible student loan borrowers in Oregon's 5th Congressional District. Last year, Lori Chavez-DeRemer voted to block student debt relief and reinstate forgiven student loan debt for public service workers, including first responders, nurses, and teachers. 

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Lori DeChavez-Remer also voted to force more than 9,000 of her own constituents to pay more on their monthly student loan bills by trying to repeal President Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan—the most affordable student loan repayment plan available for struggling borrowers and their families. 

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Let's be crystal clear: Lori DeChavez-Remer is working to keep tens of thousands of her own constituents drowning in student loan debt. 

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Aissa Canchola Banez, Political Director of Protect Borrowers Action, issued the following statement:

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“This commencement season, the class of 2024 will be graduating with the hope that student loan debt will no longer feel like a life sentence. Unfortunately, House Republicans like Lori Chavez-DeRemer are working overtime to push student loan debt relief out of reach and make student loan payments even more expensive for thousands of their own hard-working constituents. 

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“The 94,000 residents of Oregon's 5th Congressional District who are being crushed by the student loan debt crisis will remember who fought to improve their lives and strengthen the economic stability of their families—and it is NOT Lori Chavez-DeRemer.”

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About Protect Borrowers Action

Protect Borrowers Action educates, activates, and mobilizes Americans with student debt to hold right-wing officials accountable for their efforts to deny borrowers life-changing relief and keep them drowning in student debt. PBA is a fiscally sponsored project of Fund for a Better Future, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. Learn more at borrowersaction.org.