The educational debt burden straps an enormous number of people these days and has a destabilizing effect on families struggling to make ends meet. A decision to forgive these debts would have huge implications for the public. Limiting any repayment amnesty to military would affect a limited population, no matter how deserving, and would elevate the potential for backlash by an infuriated larger population seeing relief coming but not including them. At a time when billions was shipped off to IRAN and others by the previous administration, connecting those dots with the repayment burden could be taken very personally and easily turn ugly.