St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter proudly declared Wednesday that his own student loans have officially been forgiven.
The Minnesota mayor posted a screenshot of his Mohela account, a site he uses to manage and make student loan payments, and it showed $0.00 in his account.
“Thank you Mr President!” he wrote.
Carter also used X posts from President Biden’s account supporting Biden’s decision to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling to “relieve” student loan debt.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter slammed President Biden for forgiving student loan payments. (Getty Images)
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“The Supreme Court tried to stop student loan forgiveness. But they couldn’t stop me. I have achieved student loan forgiveness for over 5 million Americans. And I plan to keep doing so,” Biden wrote.
“There are significant numbers of Black voters out there who are able to pursue their dreams, start a family, buy their first home, start a business, and so much more,” the president added in the video.
according to PayrollCarter made roughly $132,000 as mayor in 2021.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the St. Paul mayor’s office for comment.
Biden frequently boasts that he is ignoring Supreme Court rulings that found his student loan debt relief plan unconstitutional. (Fox News)
In 2023, supreme court The 6-3 ruling said federal law does not allow Biden, the education secretary, to forgive more than $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden promised at the time that his administration would continue to move forward with a student loan debt relief plan.
In February, he announced the Saving for a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which would forgive debt for enrolled borrowers who have been paying off their student loans for at least 10 years and have less than $12,000 in debt. Borrowers with larger amounts of debt would receive relief through an additional year of repayment for every $1,000 they owe.
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Biden has bragged in several public appearances about his efforts to avoid a Supreme Court decision.
Biden announced plans to forgive $1.2 billion in student loan debt through the Savings for Education That Matters (SAVE) Plan (Photo by Kevin Deitch/Getty Images) (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“At the beginning of my term, I announced a big plan to provide college loan forgiveness to millions of working families,” Biden said. “We would have literally wiped out the debt for tens of millions of people who were in debt. But my MAGA Republican friends in Congress, elected officials and special interests stepped in and sued us. And the Supreme Court blocked it. But it didn’t stop me.”
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