Fox News host Greg Gutfeld reacted to student loan holders’ search for federal loan forgiveness saying “you make me sick.”
Gutfeld’s comments came during Thursday’s edition of Fox News’s “The Five,” where the hosts addressed the possibility that the Biden administration could be looking to forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt per student before the midterm elections in November of this year.
While the other hosts addressed the possibility that Americans don’t see the value in higher education and other aspects of the issue, Gutfeld spoke to the individuals who took out the loans, looking into the camera and saying, “You make me sick.”
“You’re getting American taxpayers to pay for a gift that benefits Democrats who don’t need it,” he said, harkening to the idea that it would be a forgiveness offset with federal payoffs.
The Fox host went on to explain his trouble with the potential payoffs: “This isn’t like welfare or unemployment or food stamps. It’s a gift you and I pay that is given to upper-class White art history majors who can then spend that money they would’ve spent on the loan on holidays in the Hamptons.”
At another point in his diatribe against the prospect, Gutfeld said, “This is a moral wrong, this is the worst thing … [it] makes me so angry and it’s actual theft.”
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Gutfeld wasn’t entirely against student loan forgiveness, however. The Fox host suggested that it should be left to colleges that have massively increased tuition to forgive the debt:
“Do not take it [from] us because I swear to God, you will see a real insurrection,” Gutfeld continued. “You’re actually stealing money. You’re stealing money from people and giving it to people. This is redistribution.”
The news anchor’s frustration seemed to reach a boiling point when he said, “If you can afford a car payment, you can afford your college payment … You dopes. It’s so disgusting. You make me sick.”
Earlier in the week, Biden confirmed that he would make a decision on student loans by the end of August, according to Fox Business.
On the table along with possible student loan forgiveness is an extension of the pause on repayment of student loans.
More than 107 Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate asked Biden to extend the pause in student loan repayment in a letter sent to the White House dated Thursday.
On the other side of the political aisle, Republicans called on Biden to scrap his student loan forgiveness plan.
The Republican ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), said that the forgiveness “ignores the very problems most Americans are facing in what is proving to be a very cruel economy under the President.”
On the Biden Admin's pursuit of a regressive student loan policy, @RepKevinBrady said:
— Ways and Means GOP (@WaysandMeansGOP) July 20, 2022
"Pursuing mass student loan forgiveness ignores the very problems most Americans are facing in what is proving to be a very cruel economy under the President."
Gutfeld cut to what he believed was the heart of the issue in his Thursday diatribe saying that the president’s potentially politically advantageous timing was “taking money from people to bribe people to vote for him.”
