U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar wants to make community college and programs designed to teach technical trades free, but stopped short of joining fellow
Democratic hopefuls in backing proposals that would make a four-year college degree free.
Klobuchar, who has tried to embrace a moderate lane in the crowded Democratic presidential primary, has criticized some of her opponents, including Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, for pledging to make four-year college degrees free and erasing student debt.
"We have to make college more affordable — but I don't think that rich kids should get a free four-year degree funded by the taxpayers," Klobuchar said on
Twitter in June after being asked in the first Democratic debate about her opposition to free college.