GOP Presidential Debate, New Student Debt Relief, Runway Safety Action
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Eight republicans running for the White house share a debate stage tonight in wisconsin.

The G. O, P. Pruner says he'll skip IT to do his own interview on x. How can the others make a lasting impression?

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most of the major republican candidates for president will be a nooky tonight for the first G. P debate twenty twenty four .

rates now ml walking also will host the republican and national convention next year, which is a sign of just how important the swing state of wisconsin, Donald truck, narrowly won wisconsin two thousand sixteen and then lost IT in twenty twenty while pretending to win IT. Tonight, trump will not be on stage for the republican front. Winter declined to meet his rivals. He will instead do a separate interview with the fired fox news host tucker carlson, while also preparing to surrender to georgia authorities tomorrow to faces fourth criminal. Indeed, ment this one concerns has failed efforts to stay in office after his twenty twenty election defeat.

Happy franco alone covers trump and the White houses in the lucky for the debate. Franco, the candidates have been so like, this is the official start of the race of the top presidential. ominous.

Yeah, IT really is. I mean, it's a big day for republicans. I mean, thousands of the party faithful are here.

The weather has been nice. You're seeing the signs, the hats. I've talked with folks from arkansas, a florida and massachusets one ron cough man. He's a party representative from master husein in a long time, job Operative. Here's how he kind of summed up the mood.

People like being here and they pumped. I wish all the cancer going to be here, but that's not change anything .

I talking about trump, but not going to be there at tonight. What does that mean that he's not showing?

I mean, Steve mentioned some of them, you know mean, no question, that puts a damper on things people are not happy that he's skipping. But trump says he doesn't want to prop up his rivals, being that he so far ahead, and he really is far ahead. I mean, the campaign says americans already know what kind of president trumps gonna be, so he doesn't need to sell himself like some of the less unknown candidates do.

But he doesn't look, as Steve noted, that he's going to entirely save the spotlight. He did tea yesterday that he's gonna be busy tonight. Some counter programing planned know he has that interview with former fox news host tucker carlson, which could run at the same time as the debate, which is also on far magine earlier.

how malloc is hosting the republican national convention next year. Why else has that city becomes so important for republicans?

I mean, really it's critical to both parties. President buying was actually in milwaukee week touting his economic record, and his campaign just released a local ad do. And much of the same in wisconsin is truly a state up for grabs in the last two presidential elections in two thousand and sixteen, trump, one by less than twenty five thousand votes. Four years later, biden did the same thing. So republicans .

maybe see an opportunity to back.

that's for sure. I mean, there was consent. State party chairman brian shamming says the big investment in was constant for republicans really is no accident.

I always say wisconsin isn't one of fifty states with this election were one of about five. Really the White house runs through wisconsin.

Now he really remembers when concern was considered fly over country, but now he says voters can run in the presidential candidates at the convenience store.

So how big then is the window for these candidates to make an impression?

They really need to seized the moment. As we said before, they are way behind. You know, IT is common for a candidate who does well in debate stage to get up a bit of a bump in the polls and also in fund raising.

So it's a big moment, but I could also be short lived. And that's because trump anny plans to travel to georgia tomorrow and surrender to authorities. So focus is likely to turn back to trump soon. IT ever leaves him at all.

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or do things well. Thank you.

Tens of millions of borrowers who are expected to restart their student loan payments next month could .

be getting a break. The education department is starting what it's calling the most affordable repayment plan in history, so affordable that the biden administration says many borrowers will see some or even all of their federal student loans erased. This plan is separate from the outright loan forgiveness plan that the supreme court struck down earlier this year.

np. s. Cory Turner has been pouring through the nuts and bull cori. How's new plan going to work?

Well, the idea is pretty simple. The less you make, the less you pay each month. There have been other income based plans, but this one, which they're calling the saving on a valuable education plan or the economy saved, is much more generous than everything that came before.

And that's really because of three big changes. So first, it's going to dramatically lower monthly payments for millions of powers. It's also gonna replace the number of people who qualify to make no payments at all.

A second, under older plans, bowers, who qualified for those low or even zero dollar monthly payments, still watched interest quite often explode their loans. Now, although as long as you're paying with the government thinks you can afford, it's going to forgive any interest that left over each month. And then the third big change, a, is a kind of ticking clock toward forgiveness.

For undergraduate bowers, who keep up with their payments for twenty years, the government promises to forgive whatever is left. That's not entirely new. What's new is if you borrowed twelve thousand dollars or less, you know, maybe for community college, you will only have to wait ten years, half as long. And one more thing, this is key. The administration wants to give many powers back credit for the years they've already bent in repayment, which obviously with them bring them that much closer to forgiveness.

okay. So Price tag, what's going to cost?

All right. So the administration projects that people will see their total payments per dollar baroud overall cut by around forty percent. So as a lot of death, the ad department says, it's ultimately gonna forgiving, which obviously has raised a lot of red flags, specially among conservatives. Here's nat ml. Cus, who studies higher red policy at the american enterprise to tube.

that means that if you borrow to ten thousand dollars, you'll only pay back sixty two hundred on average. That doesn't sound like a one program. IT sounds like a qazi grant program tacked onto the end of a loan program.

I should say at least one estimate suggests the cost could equal or even exceed the cost of the loan forgiven ness plan. The supreme court killed and that was around four hundred billion dollars. Um I have spoken with other experts though who say, look, these big changes in this plan are going to a help millions of low income americans afford their debts and access college in the future here's dominic Baker. She's an associate professor of education policy at southern methods university.

Those are things that sound kind of policy monkey. They are incredibly impact for for people's lives like bundle together. This is a sounding .

you mentioned earlier the loan forgiveness an the supreme court killed. What are the chances of this will face legal chAllenges?

I think it's inevitable that I will face legal chAllenge, though most of the folks I talk to about this, even those who don't like the plan, say this one is on safer legal footing.

M P R education correspondent cory Turner corry, thanks for looking into this. You welcome.

The federal aviation administration is taken out a shrine of near misses on the runway and will draw attention to safety in dozens of meetings.

About ninety U. S.

Airports is on the go. Fx is on the go. That's what IT sounded like back on february ary forth for the pilot of a southwest airlines flight. The plane had been cleared to take off from Austin.

A fedex cargo plane had been told to use the same way and could have landed on the passenger plane with one hundred thirty one people on board if IT hadn't changed course. It's one of multiple serious close calls track by the F. A, A. This year.

And rectangles on the line is an aviation reporter for the wall street journal. Andrew, the fa tracks these near messes on the ground and in the air. How is this? You're been different.

D, F, A classifies these incidents with different ranks of seriousness. And earlier this year, there was a big of close calls at runways are around the country, uh, that were are the most serious that the F. A tracks.

And so regulators were alarmed enough to put the focus on these so called runway incursions. They held a big meeting in the washington, D. C.

area. They brought in airlines, pilots, airport Operators to try to figure out what's going on. And these forthcoming meetings at U. S. Airports are an extension of that effort.

right. So how are these meetings are going to achieve what the F A. Wants, which is zero close calls?

They're ultimately trying to tell everyone in the industry to keep their head in the game and be extra vigilant about safety issues. They are trying to figure out what happened in each of these close calls. They are also trying to figure out what could tie them all together systemically.

What could be the underlying cause, the trying to understand why there are these mistakes, either ther by pilots or air traffic controllers. What have you? The industry in the U.

S. Has all but eliminated major fatal airline crashes. There hasn't been one with a major U. S. Airline past fourteen years, years, which is remarkable by historical standards. And now suddenly things are getting way too close and are trying to figure out why and keep IT from even getting that close.

So these close calls, the high number of these new messes, is IT, possibly because of increased traffic. The pandemic.

that is one of the concerns. There are a lot more airplanes to manage flying around, adding to the stress of an already constrained system. Air traffic control towers are understaffed, are a Younger and newer uh members of the world force, not only in air traffic rol but also at airlines in the cockpit. Um the pilots are facing new pressures in the traditional career path has been accelerated given there are so many retirements during the pandemic when nobody was flying and suddenly you've got Younger pilots progressing to bigger planes, becoming captain in command of new airplanes, that they are less experience dealing with them. Maybe account apart minded than ten fifteen years ago .

I thought for the wall street journal Andrew tangle, thanks. Thank you.

And that's a first for wednesday, August twenty thirty.

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