- Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a prominent advocate for student loan forgiveness in Congress, has revealed a student loan debt of up to $50,000 owed to the Department of Education, as indicated in her recent financial disclosure to the New Yorker.
- The financial document, reviewed by the Washington Examiner, disclosed that as of 2022, Ocasio-Cortez holds a student loan balance ranging between $15,000 and $50,000.
- Coinciding with the same year, the congresswoman spearheaded efforts urging the Biden administration to waive thousands of dollars in student loans for individual borrowers.