The Biden administration has a chance to deliver student debt relief. It must act | Astra Taylor and Eleni Schirmer

A window for loan forgiveness just opened. But if the Biden administration moves too slowly, Republicans will slam it shut

Last week, the Washington Post reported that President Biden recently pressed Jeff Zients, his chief of staff, on the issue of student debt cancellation, telling him to make sure his team was making the relief as expansive as possible".

That's good news for tens of millions of borrowers. But expansive relief will not be delivered if the administration fails to learn the lessons from round one of the cancellation battle: speed and conviction matter.

Astra Taylor is a writer, organizer and documentary maker and a co-founder of the Debt Collective

Eleni Schirmer, a writer and postdoctoral fellow at the Concordia University Social Justice Centre in Montreal, is part of the Debt Collective