This post has been updated with Sanders’ comments.

Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is unveiling a student loan plan that would wipe out more than $1.5 trillion in American student debt.

The plan, first reported by The Washington Post, goes further than proposals by fellow presidential candidates in that it aims to cancel all of the student debt held by 46 million Americans (including graduate school debt). Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently unveiled a plan aiming to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt based on household income, which her team said would help 42 million Americans.

“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, it is simply not acceptable for our younger generation through no fault of their own have a lower standard of living than their parents, more debt, lower wages, and less likelihood of owning their own homes,” Sanders said at a Monday news conference detailing the proposal, called the College For All Act and sponsored by House members Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

He added: “That is why this proposal completely eliminates student debt in this country and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation — the millennial generation — to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of doing the right thing, and that is going out and getting a higher education.”

The Associated Press, citing materials detailing the plan, reported that it would save the average borrower about $3,000 a year. Sanders proposes that the federal government foot the entire bill with proceeds stemming from a proposed tax on Wall Street aimed at raising $2.4 trillion over 10 years.

“We bailed out Wall Street in 2008,” the senator tweeted early Monday morning. “It’s time to tax Wall Street’s greed to help the American people.”

Warren also said that the cost of her plan would be covered by her “Ultra-Millionaire Tax,” which is an annual 2% tax on American households’ net worth that’s more than $50 million in wealth and an additional 1% tax on those who have on $1 billion.

States are taking action on student debt

Currently there are more than 44 million Americans holding $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loans. An increasing amount is turning sour — with around 11% in serious delinquency or in default in the first quarter of this year, according to the New York Fed.

Under Warren’s $640 billion plan, only borrowers who have a household income of less than $100,000 will have $50,000 of their student debt forgiven, while those earning an income between $100,000 to $250,000 would see a lesser amount forgiven.