总统乔·拜登星期三宣布的联邦学生贷款支付的暂停又一次延长，这次延长到8月31日。
这将是该计划在疫情两年内的第六次延期，距离原定于5月1日重启的还款不到一个月，可能会影响数百万尚未还款的借款人。
拜登在一份声明中说:“正如我最近在延长新冠肺炎国家紧急状态时认识到的那样，我们仍在从疫情及其造成的前所未有的经济破坏中恢复过来。”。
“如果贷款支付在5月份如期恢复，对美联储最近数据的分析表明，数百万学生贷款借款人将面临严重的经济困难，拖欠和违约可能威胁美国的金融稳定，”他说。
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2022年4月5日，乔·拜登总统在白宫东厅的一次活动中发表讲话。
国会民主党人向拜登施压，要求他要么延长暂停时间，要么取消学生贷款债务，新的延长冻结将在11月中期选举前结束，确保学生贷款债务将在全国各地的竞选中筹集。
拜登在这个问题上的最新举措得到了进步民主党人的不同评价，包括纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)，他批评政府对借款人经历的持续不确定性。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯并不是唯一呼吁拜登干脆消除所有学生债务的民主党人。
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佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯。，周二在推特上说拜登需要更进一步。
拜登在竞选期间承诺为每一个联邦借款人批准10，000美元的学生贷款豁免，但他还没有这样做。
Biden again extends pause in federal student loan payments
PresidentJoe Bidenon Wednesdayannouncedanother extension in the pause in federal student loan payments -- this time until Aug. 31.
This delay would be the sixth extension to the program in the two years of the pandemic and it comes less than a month before payments were scheduled to restart on May 1, potentially affecting millions of borrowers who have not been making payments.
"As I recognized in recently extending the COVID-19 national emergency, we are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused," Biden said in a statement.
"If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability," he said.
Congressional Democrats have pressured Biden to either extend the pause or cancel student loan debt -- and the new extended freeze until in August will end right before the midterm elections in November, ensuring that student loan debt will be raised in races around the country.
Biden's latest move on the issue is getting mixed reviews from progressive Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who criticized the administration for the continuing uncertainty borrowers have been experiencing.
Ocasio-Cortez is not the only Democrat who has called on Biden to simply eliminate all student debt.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted on Tuesday that Biden needs to go further.
Biden pledged to approve $10,000 in student loan forgiveness for every federal borrower during his campaign, but he has yet to do so.
