James Hohmann made the claim after it was reported that the president was leaning toward cancelling up to $10,000 in debt per borrower.
. The report caused outrage among Republicans, who have warned that scrapping student debt would amount to a bailout of the upper middle class and transfer the burden onto the less affluent.
“And the base isn’t going to turn out if they don’t do this, and that they have all sorts of stats about how a lot of graduates from HBCUs [historically black colleges and universities] have all this debt,” the columnist added. “And so there are a lot of people very close to the president who privately understand that this is a complete disaster for them. But the president is being pulled really hard by these woke leftists who … believe it’s all about the base.
Representatives for Adams and Warnock did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.