Vice President Kamala Harris said during an interview that aired on Sunday that Democrats need to fight for student debt forgiveness which comes as a former top economist in the Obama administration said that the idea was “highly regressive.”

“Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it’s delusional for Democrats to think they’re going to win control in 2022 if they don’t do something about the filibuster and student debt,” CBS News host Margaret Brennan said on “Face The Nation. “Will we see any movement on student debt in the new year?”

“So, I know that Sec. Cardona, the Secretary of Education, is working on what we can do and must do frankly to relieve the — the pressures of student loan debt, and it’s a real issue,” Harris said. “Students across — well graduates and former students across our country are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home. … And it’s no small matter, and we need to figure out a way to relieve debt.”

When pressed by Brennan on whether it was important to deliver on debt forgiveness for student loans before the midterms, Harris responded, “Well, I think that we have to continue to do what we’re doing and figure out how we can creatively relieve the pressure that students are feeling because of their student loan debt. Yes.”