White House officials feel extending the pause on student loans is a "bad look"

Student loan borrowers who are looking for an extension of the pause on student loan payments shouldn’t get their hopes up too much.

According to Briahna Joy Gray, the former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders, the White House believes extending the pause on payments would be a “bad look” for the administration. The main concern White House officials cited for not wanting to continue the payment pause was that it could make it look like economic recovery isn’t happening.

“…There has been reporting that the reason that the White House doesn’t actually want to extend the student debt moratorium isn’t for any principled reason, but because the administration wants to paint a picture that the economic crisis that the country has been in for the last year or so is actually over,” Gray said.

What else did Gray reveal about the Biden administration’s thoughts on student loans?