Would you get free tuition under Hillary Clinton?
“Timeline!” at Sanders, demanding to know when he plans to bow out of the presidential race and endorse his rival, Hillary Clinton.
Noting that the graduating class of 2016 is slated to be the most indebted in USA history, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announced a proposal Wednesday to make debt-free college available to everyone.
“How many people didn’t get paid, and he just walked away?”
The announcement is the latest indication that Clinton is using college affordability as a way to differentiate herself from her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, and to attract the young voters Sanders galvanized during the primary and who see this as a key issue.
The Clinton campaign announced plans to provide free in-state tuition at public colleges for families with income up to $125,000.
The threshold for free tuition would increase by $10,000 annually before finally bringing the qualifying income to $125,000 after five years.
Clinton would also impose a three-month moratorium on federal student loan payments and endorse reinstating year-round access to Pell Grants, her campaign said in a statement Wednesday. Though it still won’t give Trump’s kids a free education, it’s notably more generous than the one she previously outlined-and it’s a near copy of Sanders’ plan for free college.
Throughout the Democratic primary campaign, Sanders advocated eliminating tuition at public colleges and universities, something he said could be done at a cost of $75 billion annually, funded by a new Wall Street speculation tax. The proposal builds on her earlier plan for easing student debt loads for higher education.
The rich would still have to pay, unlike Sander’s plan, which would cover everyone. The official said Clinton would emphasise Trump’s promise to “do for the country what I did for my business” to warn that he is unfit to manage economic policy. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. heads to the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Meanwhile, pressure on Sanders to throw his full support to Clinton has been mounting. House Democrats met privately with Vermont Sen.
“What he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he’ll do if he wins in November”, Clinton warned Wednesday, the faded facade of Trump Plaza, a shuttered hotel formerly owned by the presumptive Republican nominee, just over her shoulder. Clinton said voters should be wary when the presumptive Republican nominee says he would apply his business skills to the presidency.
At one point he said, “Our goal is not to win elections”, and then paused.
Trump has filed four business bankruptcies in the last 30 years, all of which surrounded his casino holdings in Atlantic City.
Marty Rosenberg, who introduced Clinton before her speech, said his plate glass company got hosed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in its work on the Taj years ago.
Mr Trump hit back, calling Mr Obama’s return to the campaign trail “a carnival act”, and derided him as a president “who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing”.
Clinton’s remarks were part of a growing effort by her campaign to tear down Trump’s business reputation, which Democrats believe is overhyped and based more on his ability to attract publicity than actual private sector skills.