Ah that makes more sense. I was wondering how any kind of student loan forgiveness program could possibly get passed in the current political situation, and it

Ah that makes more sense. I was wondering how any kind of student loan forgiveness program could possibly get passed in the current political situation, and it looks like the answer is that there isn't any such program being passed. This is just a new budgetary report estimating the fiscal impact of existing student-loan rules which cap repayment to a maximum percentage of income for a maximum number of years (such rules date back to the 1990s).