Republicans see cost of canceling student debt as campaign issue

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In today’s edition of Swing State Georgia:

• Walker still opposed to Medicaid expansion.

• Republicans fume over White House views on the ‘chop’

• State election board holds final pre-November meeting.

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If Republicans were looking for one more arrow for their midterm election year quiver, they got it on Monday from the Congressional Budget Office.

In a new report on President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for individual Americans, the CBO - the nonpartisan number crunchers on Capitol Hill - said the plan could have a price tag of $400 billion over the next decade.