If elected, Mayor Pete likely the first president with student loan debt

If elected, Buttigieg, 37, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., would likely be the first president with student loan debt.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Glezman, together have a six-figure student loan debt, but the two are far from being the only Americans who grapple with owing money.

In his financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics in mid-May, Buttigieg reported that he and his husband have between $110,000 and $265,000 in student loan debt, The Associated Press reported. The report requires a range. Chris Meagher, a campaign spokesman, confirmed to Fox Business that the exact amount is $131,296.

Buttigieg’s campaign did not immediately respond to Fox Business’ request for a comment.

If elected, Buttigieg, 37, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., would likely be the first president with student loan debt.

Buttigieg has been open on the campaign trail about his and his husband’s student loan debt. The mayor graduated from Harvard University in 2004, then won a Rhodes scholarship and graduated from Oxford in 2007. The presidential hopeful told Vice he was able to get through school without much debt but his husband racked up student loans while getting his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Buttigieg and Glezman were far from alone with the burden of student loan debt. The two are among 43 million people in the U.S. who owe federal student loans.

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