WH Spox on Paying for Loan Plan: We Already Cut Deficit, CBO's Estimate Isn't Accurate, We're Still Working on Numbers

On Tuesday's "CNN Newsroom," White House Senior Adviser for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms responded to the Congressional Budget Office's $400 billion cost projection for President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and how the administration will pay for it by saying that the deficit has already been reduced and questioning the accuracy of the CBO estimate. Bottoms also stated that the White House is still working on crunching the numbers on the plan.