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WEEKEND READER: Pelosi’s Secret Student Loan Memo

Aug 8, 2021 Joel Warner
The house speaker nixed forgiving student loans after getting a key missive from billionaire donors.
WEEKEND READER: Pelosi’s Secret Student Loan Memo
Nancy Pelosi (Photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long kept silent as to whether President Joe Biden should cancel student debt — but that changed in late July. “The president can’t do it — so that’s not even a discussion,” she said during a news conference, stunning colleagues. As we detail in this week’s Weekend Reader, The Intercept discovered Pelosi made the announcement after she received a private memo from Democratic megadonors.

Find out about that memo and much more in this Weekend Reader, exclusively for paying subscribers below.

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