Watch: Bernie Sanders tears into tax-cutting Republicans for 'squawking' over student debt relief

On Sunday's edition of This Week on ABC News, United States Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) shredded complaints by Republicans that President Joe Biden's Student Loan Debt Relief Plan is "unfair" to Americans who have no educational debt.

Host George Stephanopoulos asked Sanders to comment on Senator Roy Blunt's (R-Missouri) assertion that Biden's directive "would harm the economy" during his appearance in a previous segment.

“Well he's wrong," Sanders said. "Sixty percent of the benefits go to people who are on Pell Grants. Eighty-seven percent of the benefits go to people who are making $75,000 a year" or less.

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Sanders called out the GOP's economic hypocrisy.

"Look, I know it is shocking, George, to some Republicans that the government actually, on occasion, does something to benefit working families and low-income people," he stated. "I don’t hear any of these Republicans squawking when we give massive tax breaks to billionaires, when we have an effective tax rate today such that the one percent have a lower effective tax rate than working people, where major corporations in a given year don't pay a nickel in federal taxes. That's okay, but suddenly when we do something for working people it is a terrible idea."

Sanders recalled that "I was in Boston last week talking to nurses and nurses were telling me that they are working in some cases two jobs, outrageous hours, partly in order to pay for the student debts that they have accumulated."

He reaffirmed that "in my view, the president did the right thing and we have gotta really be thinking about higher education in general. And in my view, at a time when hundreds of thousands of bright young people can't even afford to go to college, if we're gonna be competitive in a global economy, we need to make public college and universities tuition-free."

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Sanders then added that “the answer is not to deny help to people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. The answer is that maybe, just maybe, we want to have a government that works for all working people and not just the people on top.”

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