Back in 2016, Trump said his plan for reducing America's debt was to simply "discount" it. Yes, he actually used the word "discount", as if he could take a Walmart price gun and say "America's debt: was $19 trillion, now just $15 trillion!"
In other words, he figured he would knock a few trillion off America's debt by simply ... refusing to pay it. And his supporters voted for this imbecile.
Keep that in mind as those same supporters today pretend to believe that student loans cannot be even partially forgiven because debt is sacrosanct. They do NOT believe in the sanctity of debt. If they did, they never would have voted for the orange bankruptcy king.