"If Democrats want to regain the trust of people across the country," the California progressive writes, "we need to deliver on the things that materially improve people's lives."

The New York Democrat warned that limits on student loan forgiveness "could exclude many of the frontline workers who are drowning in debt."

"Student loan debt is already means-tested by design: the rich have no student debt," said the Debt Collective. "We need to cancel all student loan debt."

By introducing a bill to prevent Joe Biden from wiping out student debt, "aren't Republican senators admitting that student debt cancellation is within the authority of the president?" asked one journalist.

"This is a sign that we are winning," said the Student Debt Crisis Center.

A plurality of Americans under age 30 surveyed by Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics support canceling all outstanding student loan debt.

"Widespread debt cancellation is needed immediately," said one advocate.