Remember the Vicious Elizabeth Warren vs. Joe Biden Fight Over Student Debt? It's Back By Julia Rock, Walker Bragman and David Sirota On 2/23/21 at 5:00 AM EST A sharp exchange over student debt. Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in a Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire on February 7, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty President Joe Biden may not be a particularly ideological politician, but one of the few things he seems to absolutely believe in is debt. In particular, student debt. On the campaign trail he appeared to suggest otherwise, repeatedly promising that he would support some incremental action to forgive student debt, tweeting that the federal government should forgive "a minimum" of $10,000 of college loans.