Over a dozen Congressional Republicans introduced a measure on Tuesday to repeal the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration&#8217;s</a> latest student loan forgiveness efforts that lawmakers argue would transfer over $500 billion of debt onto taxpayers.
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden&#8217;s massive $430 billion student debt relief plan in June, the administration unveiled an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan that allows borrowers to repay their debt based on income and family size rather than the loan balance itself. After ten years of payments, those with less than $12,000 would have the rest forgiven.
&#8220;Once again, Biden&#8217;s newest student loan scheme only shifts the burden from those who chose to take out loans to those who decided not to go to college, paid their way, or already responsibly paid off their loans,&#8221; Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the ranking Republican member on the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), said in a <a href="https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=E350292B-CFB3-4C2D-B677-FE890BAB35C9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Cassidy, along with 16 Republican colleagues in both chambers of Congress, <a href="https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/idr_one_pager.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the &#8220;reckless&#8221; <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/22/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-launches-the-save-plan-the-most-affordable-student-loan-repayment-plan-ever-to-lower-monthly-payments-for-millions-of-borrowers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan</a> that would relieve the principal amount on primarily bachelor&#8217;s degree student loans — costing taxpayers as much as $559 billion.
The lawmakers said that under the plan, 91% of new student debt would be eligible for reduced 
payments and eventual transfer of $0.50 on every $1 borrowed to taxpayers.
&#8220;Our resolution protects the 87% of Americans who don&#8217;t have student debt and will be forced to shoulder the burden of the President&#8217;s irresponsible and unfair policy,&#8221; he added.
According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the IDR rule would disperse billions of dollars annually to community college students expecting to have their debt relieved, which lawmakers said would turn the federal student loan financing system into a &#8220;poorly targeted, taxpayer-funded grant program.&#8221;
Reps. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Virginia Foxx (R-NC) called the Biden administration&#8217;s student loan plan a &#8220;scam&#8221; and the costliest regulation in U.S. history.
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&#8220;The only difference between President Biden and a snake oil salesman is a title,&#8221; Foxx and McClain said in a <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409498#:~:text=Lisa%20McClain%20(R%2DMI),Education%20(SAVE)%E2%80%9D%20plan." target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;Biden&#8217;s administration knows what it&#8217;s doing is illegal, but it&#8217;s pushing forward anyway, promoting its SAVE scheme as a solution to America&#8217;s broken student loan system. In reality, the SAVE scheme is a desperate effort to curry favor and buy votes ahead of the next election.&#8221;
Congressional Republicans and Democrats reportedly have criticized the president&#8217;s student loan relief efforts. GOP lawmakers said such plans overlook underlying issues that have led to the skyrocketing cost of college and the increasing debt students take on.
It&#8217;s unclear if Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would bring the CRA to the floor for a vote, considering he <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-floor-remarks-on-opposing-republicans-resolution-to-overturn-president-bidens-student-loan-cancellation-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed</a> Republicans&#8217; &#8220;cruel&#8221; attempt to shut down Biden&#8217;s student loan forgiveness program before the nation&#8217;s highest court overruled it.
The Biden administration has so far forgiven approximately $116 billion to more than 3.4 million people.
After the Supreme Court blocked the president&#8217;s initial student debt relief plan, Biden said he would &#8220;stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hard-working middle-class families.&#8221;
Last week, officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-forgives-another-72-million-in-loans-for-students-cheated-by-one-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> $72 million in student loans for about 2,300 student borrowers who attended Ashford University, an online for-profit school based in San Diego that the University of Arizona has since acquired.

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The Biden administration canceled another $72 million in student loans this week, saying thousands of students were &#8220;cheated&#8221; by one California school.
About 2,300 student borrowers who attended Ashford University, an online for-profit school based in San Diego that has since been acquired by the University of Arizona, will have their debt wiped away, the Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-approves-72-million-borrower-defense-discharges-over-2300-borrowers-who-attended-ashford-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in a statement on Wednesday.
This latest batch of debt relief comes after the Supreme Court in June <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> President Biden’s massive $430 billion student debt relief plan that would have forgiven 40 million people&#8217;s loans.
This week&#8217;s decision brings the Biden administration&#8217;s total student debt forgiven up to $116 billion for more than 3.4 million people, the administration said.
Wednesday&#8217;s $72 million in loan forgiveness is <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/biden-forgives-72-million-more-student-loan-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the result</a> of the Department of Education&#8217;s review of a 2017 lawsuit the California Department of Justice brought against Ashford University. California claimed the school had misled students by lying about tuition costs and employment potential while also using aggressive recruiting methods.
Ashford students had <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-borrower-defense-debt-relief-california-biden-education-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> borrower defense claims alleging they were defrauded by their school. This type of claim can result in loan forgiveness if approved.
A judge ruled at the time that Ashford University made 1.2 million misrepresentations to students between 2009 and 2020 and imposed a civil penalty of $22.3 million. The school is currently appealing the ruling.
The court&#8217;s decision stated that the school “created a high-pressure admissions department whose north star was enrollment numbers” and that “admissions counselors would cross a ‘gray line’ ethically or ‘do things they wouldn’t normally do’ to boost numbers to keep their jobs.”
“As the California Department of Justice proved in court, Ashford relied extensively on high-pressure and deceptive recruiting tactics to lure students,” Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal said in Wednesday&#8217;s statement. “Today we are protecting the students who were cheated by Ashford, and we will also hold the perpetrators accountable, protect taxpayers, and deter future wrongdoing.”
&#8220;What Ashford University did to its students was unconscionable and illegal,&#8221; California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. &#8220;I want to thank the Biden-Harris Administration for changing the lives of thousands of former Ashford students today. They have lived a nightmare for too long.&#8221;
Since the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision forcing Biden to scrap his $430 billion student loan forgiveness plan, the president has looked for other ways to get borrowers relief.
After the court’s decision, Biden <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-administration-forgives-39-billion-student-loan-debt-more-than-800000-borrowers?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would “stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hard-working middle-class families.”
In an email to student loan holders, the administration even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-got-it-wrong-biden-administration-tells-student-borrowers-in-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Supreme Court “got it wrong” on student debt.
Last month, the administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-got-it-wrong-biden-administration-tells-student-borrowers-in-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> several debt relief actions it said it would take “immediately” instead of Biden&#8217;s nixed plan.
One of the actions is the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which will cut monthly payments to $0 for millions of low-income borrowers.
Another move is ensuring borrowers are protected from the “worst consequences” of late or partial payments, such as a hit to their credit score when the student loan payment pause ends this fall.

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Biden Administration Forgives Another $72 Million In Loans For Students ‘Cheated’ By One School

Biden Administration Forgives Another $72 Million In Loans For Students 'Cheated' By One School

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The latest version of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s student debt bailout, scaled back after its defeat in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a>, is again facing legal challenges.
Biden’s new plan involves forgiving the federal student loans of 800,000 borrowers worth roughly $39 billion. Two think tanks challenged it in a lawsuit filed on Friday, according to <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/think-tanks-file-suit-block-biden-administrations-plan-cancel-39b-student-loans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Business</a>.
New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the legal challenge last week in Michigan on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute. The lawsuit argues that the Department of Education is overstepping its authority with the forgiveness plan and asks the judge to rule it illegal.
The lawsuit is “a desperate attempt from right wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt,” the Education Department said in a statement, according to the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/08/06/groups-sue-to-block-bidens-second-try-on-student-loans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. “We are not going to back down or give an inch when it comes to defending working families.”
Biden’s original student debt forgiveness plan called for relieving up to $20,000 worth of federal debt for an estimated 43 million borrowers. The administration faced a couple of legal challenges, and it was ultimately <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thwarted</a> after several states argued it would illegally relieve loans that they had agreed to service, costing the states up to tens of millions of dollars every year.
The Supreme Court ruled the plan unconstitutional on June 30, knocking down Biden’s attempt at fulfilling a campaign promise that had always appeared to be in doubt.
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Roughly two weeks later, on July 14, the administration rolled out its next, scaled-back version.
“For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-provide-804000-borrowers-39-billion-automatic-loan-forgiveness-result-fixes-income-driven-repayment-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> at the time. “Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking another historic step to right these wrongs and announcing $39 billion in debt relief for another 804,000 borrowers. By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve, just as we have done for public servants, students who were cheated by their colleges, and borrowers with permanent disabilities, including veterans. This Administration will not stop fighting to level the playing field in higher education.”

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The Biden administration said the Supreme Court &#8220;got it wrong&#8221; on student debt forgiveness in a recent email to student loan holders.
The Education Department&#8217;s Federal Student Aid office sent a <a href="https://mirror.mail.studentaid.gov/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%40t2gxE%2Bfh6iZHBEaBU5w%2FGYoOBPWMjGwsLqqKw%2Bwj7jo%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Americans who still owe student loans, assuring them that the administration would keep fighting to forgive their debt.
&#8220;We believe the Supreme Court got it wrong,&#8221; read the email, which was signed by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
&#8220;While we disagree with the Court’s decision, our Administration will not stop fighting to provide debt relief to borrowers. We will use every tool at our disposal to do so,&#8221; Cardona wrote.
The email explained that the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision means the Biden administration cannot move forward with its student debt forgiveness plan.
Last month, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness">struck down</a> President Biden&#8217;s $430 billion student debt relief policy that would have forgiven the student debt of about 40 million people. The high court ruled 6-3 that the HEROES Act of 2003 does not give Biden the authority to cancel billions in student loan debt.
After the court’s decision, Biden <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-administration-forgives-39-billion-student-loan-debt-more-than-800000-borrowers?intcmp=tw_fnc">said</a> he would “stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hard-working middle-class families.”
The Education Department had already approved applications for more than 16 million borrowers, the department said.
&#8220;President Biden and I recognize how critical student debt relief would have been for tens of millions of Americans and their families,&#8221; the email said.
The administration outlined three debt relief actions it is taking “immediately” instead of the massive debt forgiveness plan.
First, the administration is working on a long-term plan to forgive student loans using “negotiated rulemaking,” a long process involving the Education Department and a negotiating committee that could take years — and could be interrupted by a new president getting elected.
Second, the administration announced the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which will cut monthly payments to $0 for millions of low-income borrowers starting later this summer. The cut-off is $32,800 for a single person and $67,500 for a borrower in a family of four. All other borrowers will save at least $1000 a year under the SAVE plan, and the SAVE plan will also stop “runaway interest,” the administration said.
Third, the Education Department will ensure borrowers are protected from the “worst consequences” of late or partial payments, such as a hit to their credit score when the student loan payment pause ends this fall.
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The Biden administration made yet another move on debt forgiveness last week.
The administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-forgives-39-billion-in-student-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it would forgive $39 billion in student debt for about 804,000 borrowers. That debt relief is the result of changes to the student loan system’s income-driven repayment programs. The programs were built to forgive student debt after borrowers have been making payments for at least 20 or 25 years, depending on their loan. However, few borrowers have actually gotten their loans forgiven under that system.
In total, the Biden administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-forgives-39-billion-in-student-debt">forgiven</a> more than $116.6 billion in student loans for more than 3.4 million borrowers so far, the Education Department said.
Leftist lawmakers and activists have long called for broad student debt relief and for years have urged the Biden administration to grant it. Critics argue that forgiving student loans is unfair to those who sacrificed to pay off their loans, especially since taxpayers ultimately pay for any government-funded debt relief.

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SCOTUS 'Got It Wrong,' Biden Administration Tells Student Borrowers In Email

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The Biden administration on Friday announced it will forgive $39 billion in student debt for about 804,000 borrowers.
The debt relief is the result of changes to the student loan system&#8217;s income-driven repayment programs. The programs were built to forgive student debt after borrowers have been making payments for at least 20 or 25 years, depending on their loan. However, few borrowers have actually gotten their loans forgiven under that system.
&#8220;These fixes are part of the Department’s commitment to address historical failures in the administration of the Federal student loan program,&#8221; the Education Department <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-provide-804000-borrowers-39-billion-automatic-loan-forgiveness-result-fixes-income-driven-repayment-plans#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20the%20Biden%2DHarris,more%20than%203.4%20million%20borrowers." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Friday in a press release.
Leftist lawmakers and activists have long called for broad student debt relief and have urged the Biden administration for years to grant it.
Critics argue that granting student debt relief is unfair to those who sacrificed to pay off their loans, especially since taxpayers ultimately pay for any government-funded debt relief.
In total, the Biden administration has now forgiven more than $116.6 billion in student loans for more than 3.4 million borrowers, the Education Department said. The Biden administration was generous in their interpretation of who is eligible for the student debt relief under the new changes and counted certain people who paused their payments as well as some who had made partial or late payments.
The Education Department&#8217;s plan to make changes to the system in order to forgive certain people&#8217;s student debt was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/biden-administration-student-debt-relief-00106366" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in April of last year. The department plans to notify people soon whether they are eligible to have their loans forgiven under the changes.
“For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track of their progress towards forgiveness,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
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“By fixing past administrative failures, we are ensuring everyone gets the forgiveness they deserve, just as we have done for public servants, students who were cheated by their colleges, and borrowers with permanent disabilities, including veterans. This Administration will not stop fighting to level the playing field in higher education,” Cardona said.
The move comes just weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Biden&#8217;s $430 billion student debt relief plan, which would have forgiven the student debt of about 37 million people. The high court voted 6-3 that the COVID-era HEROES Act does not give Biden the authority to cancel billions in student loan debt.
“Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree,” Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> for the majority.
After the court&#8217;s decision, Biden <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-administration-forgives-39-billion-student-loan-debt-more-than-800000-borrowers?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he will &#8220;stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hard-working middle-class families.&#8221;
The student debt relief announced Friday is separate from Biden&#8217;s debt relief plan that was struck down by the court.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday in a statement that she and Biden &#8220;will not stop there.&#8221;
&#8220;Our administration will continue to fight to make sure Americans can access high-quality postsecondary education without taking on the burden of unmanageable student loan debt,&#8221; Harris <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/14/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-additional-student-loan-forgiveness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

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Roughly a third of Americans with student loans spent money they would not have normally spent because they were “confident” it would be forgiven under President Joe Biden, according to a <a href="https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-3-federal-student-loan-borrowers-spent-money-they-thought-they-wouldnt-have-to-pay-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new poll</a>. 
The poll by Intelligent.com surveyed 977 people who would have qualified for at least $10,000 of debt relief under Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which was struck down by the Supreme Court last month. Of those, one in three said they spent “extra money” because they were assuming forgiveness, with many spending that money on things like vacations, retail items, and even alcohol, drugs, and gambling. 
“The Supreme Court decision is a cold shower for those who had their hopes pinned on a $10,000 relief,” James Allen, who founded personal finance website Bullpin.com, told Intelligent. “It’s like waiting for a tax refund only to find out the IRS made a mistake.” 
The poll found that of the borrowers who spent extra with the hope of the debt being wiped clean, 31% spent between $2,501-5,000, 27% spent between $1,000-2,500, 17% spent between $5,001-$7,500, 9% spent between $7,501-$10,000, and 5% spent more than $10,000. Just 11% spent less than $1,000, according to the poll. 
As for what they were spending that money on, the poll found that most respondents who said they spent extra cash did so on retail items, at 44%. The second most common expense was paying off other debts, which 37% of respondents said they did. Other expenses include home and auto payments, childcare, and down payments on vehicles and homes. 
About 20% of respondents said they spent that “extra money” on vacations, the poll found, while 8% used it for alcohol or drugs, and 7% used it for gambling. 
Over half of borrowers now say they don’t feel prepared once student loan repayment starts back up in October, with 35% saying they’re “very unprepared” and 23% saying they’re “somewhat unprepared.” Over a quarter of respondents also claimed they might “refuse to pay” the $10,000 that would have been forgiven under the president’s plan. 
Late last month, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> Biden’s loan forgiveness plan in a 6-3 decision, saying, “The Secretary asserts that the HEROES Act grants him the authority to cancel $430 billion of student loan principal. It does not. We hold today that the Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’ existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the Education Act, not to rewrite that statute from the ground up.”
According to a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/27/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-new-data-showing-26-million-people-in-all-50-states-applied-or-were-automatically-eligible-for-one-time-student-debt-relief/#:~:text=In%20the%20less%20than%20four,be%20deemed%20eligible%20for%20relief." target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact sheet</a> from August, 26 million Americans had applied or were eligible automatically for the debt relief, which applied to people who make less than $125,000 or couples who make less than $250,000. Up to $20,000 would have been forgiven for Americans who received Pell Grants. The Congressional Budget Office <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/26/biden-student-debt-relief-00058923#:~:text=The%20CBO%20analysis%20examined%20how,would%20be%20about%20%24400%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> the plan had a price tag of roughly $400 billion.

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A Third Of Student Debt Holders Spent ‘Extra Money’ They Thought Would Be Wiped Clean: Poll

Former New Hampshire Republican Governor Judd Gregg slammed President Joe Biden this week for allegedly trying to &#8220;buy votes&#8221; through his student loan bailout program.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last week that Biden&#8217;s attempt to use the HEROES Act to unilaterally forgive federally subsidized student loans was illegal.
Gregg responded to the ruling during an interview on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; on Monday, calling Biden&#8217;s plan &#8220;the biggest vote-buying scheme ever received or undertaken by a presidency, is all it was.&#8221;
&#8220;Forty million people get 20,000 bucks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ll vote for you to give me 20,000 bucks. And that’s what it is about. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s still about. That’s why they’re trying to reform it so they can keep this idea that they’re going to give this huge tax break, this income to all these folks going into the next election.&#8221;
&#8220;If the Congress wants to give away $20,000 per person to 40 million people and put the rest of the country at risk and increase the debt, and they have the right to do that,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;But you can’t do it from the executive branch because the executive branch doesn’t have that right under a constitution. And this is just power politics trying to buy votes. It’s that simple. It ought to be called out for what it was.&#8221;
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&quot;It was the biggest vote buying scheme ever undertaken by a presidency. This was an attempt to spend almost $500B and add it to the debt,&quot; says Fmr. Sen. Judd Gregg on President Biden&#39;s student debt relief plan. &quot;They clearly violated Article 1 of the Constitution.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UI24ggm55C">pic.twitter.com/UI24ggm55C</a>
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Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf">wrote</a> for the 6-3 majority: “The Secretary asserts that the HEROES Act grants him the authority to cancel $430 billion of student loan principal. It does not. We hold today that the Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’ existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the Education Act, not to rewrite that statute from the ground up.”
The decision was made along ideological lines, as Chief Justice Roberts was joined in the majority by Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barret, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas.
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The first case was decided unanimously, with all justices ruling in Department of Education v. Brown that the two petitioners who were denied debt relief under the program did not have standing to sue the Department of Education. The second case, Biden v. Nebraska, upheld the right of the several GOP states involved in the lawsuit to sue the Biden administration, clearing the hurdle necessary to present their argument before the court. Roberts bluntly contended in the majority opinion, “Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree.”
Nathan Gay contributed to this report.

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Ex-GOP Governor Blasts Biden’s Student Loan Bailout As ‘Biggest Vote-Buying Scheme Ever Undertaken’

Ex-GOP Governor Blasts Biden's Student Loan Bailout As ‘Vote-Buying Scheme’

Former Democratic New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi was mocked online late this week after complaining about having to pay off her student loans in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against President Joe Biden&#8217;s student loan cancellation program.
&#8220;In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is [sic] student loan debt,&#8221; Biaggi tweeted. &#8220;I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely. In 2023, my balance is $206,000.&#8221;
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In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is student loan debt. 
I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely. 
In 2023, my balance is $206,000.
&mdash; Alessandra Biaggi (@Biaggi4NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/Biaggi4NY/status/1674797787563847680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Some social media users pointed out a New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/alessandra-biaggi-relocates-to-new-district-in-posh-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from last year that said that the far-left Biaggi &#8220;moved into a stately $1,137,500 estate in leafy Bedford, NY&#8221; in a &#8220;ritzy suburban enclave.&#8221;
&#8220;This far-left ex-NY state senator &amp; spouse bought a $1.13 Million home in a posh NYC ‘burb last year,&#8221; Fox News contributor Dagen McDowell <a href="https://twitter.com/dagenmcdowell/status/1675078580643004416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;The 20% down payment for a mortgage of that size would have more than paid off this student loan debt. Wails for home loan bailouts imminent.&#8221;
Psychology professor Geoffrey Miller responded, &#8220;And we taxpayers should bail you out&#8230; why, exactly?&#8221;
Conservative writer Christopher F. Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1674834108806217729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;You need Dave Ramsey, not Joe Biden.&#8221;
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&#8220;You could probably rent out the carriage house on your $1M estate or let go of some of your Mexican cleaning ladies to pay it off faster,&#8221; Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1674963594524360705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Tristan Tate, the brother of Andrew Tate, responded: &#8220;The man in work boots didn&#8217;t go to Law School. He doesn&#8217;t have a high lawyer&#8217;s salary, he makes significantly less money than you do. He pays his taxes and it isn&#8217;t HIS job to pay for the tools you&#8217;ve used to live your upper class lifestyle. Pay for your own education.&#8221;
Former UFC/MMA fighter Jake Shields tweeted: &#8220;It&#8217;s not my responsibility to pay off Harvard graduate&#8217;s student loans. If you couldn&#8217;t afford it you could have gone to a different school.&#8221;

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> raged at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday over its ruling that his plan to bail out student loan borrowers was unlawful.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the HEROES Act did not give the White House authority to unilaterally forgive federally subsidized student loans.
&#8220;This program was all set to begin. The website had been set up,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;The applications had been simplified so that it took less than five minutes to complete. Notices had been sent out to people about the relief they were eligible for. Sixteen million people — sixteen million people had already been approved. The money was literally about to go out the door.&#8221;
&#8220;And then, Republican elected officials and special interests stepped in. They said no — &#8216;no&#8217; — literally snatching from the hands of millions of Americans thousands of dollars in student debt relief that was about to change their lives,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;You know, these Republican officials just couldn’t bear the thought of providing relief for working-class and middle-class Americans. Republican state officials sued my administration, attempting to block relief, including for millions of their own constituents.&#8221;
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Joe Biden blames Republicans for “snatching” Joe Biden’s student loan bailout from college graduates: <a href="https://t.co/Uxo8XjfNpw">pic.twitter.com/Uxo8XjfNpw</a>
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Biden was asked be a reporter if he overstepped his authority after the Supreme Court ruled that he did.
&#8220;I think the Court misinterpreted the Constitution,&#8221; Biden claimed.
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“Did you overstep your authority?”
Joe Biden: “I think the court misinterpreted the Constitution.” <a href="https://t.co/P5QWo48cye">pic.twitter.com/P5QWo48cye</a>
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Biden was also asked why he gave &#8220;millions of borrowers false hope.&#8221;
&#8220;You’ve doubted your own authority here in the past,&#8221; the reporter added.
&#8220;I didn’t give any false hope,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;The question was whether or not I would do even more than was requested. What I did, I thought was appropriate and was able to be done and would get done. I didn’t give borrowers false hope.&#8221;
&#8220;But the Republicans snatched away the hope that it was — they were given,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;And it’s real — real hope.&#8221;
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“Why did you give millions of borrowers false hope? You doubted your own authority here in the past.”
Joe Biden: “I didn&#39;t give any false hope!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gHEDmlAFoH">pic.twitter.com/gHEDmlAFoH</a>
&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1674875643303960579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden Explodes Over SCOTUS Ruling On Student Loans: ‘The Court Misinterpreted Constitution’

Biden Explodes Over SCOTUS Ruling On Student Loans: 'The Court Misinterpreted Constitution'

Chief Justice John Roberts quoted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in the majority opinion — released on Friday — that struck down President Joe Biden&#8217;s student debt cancellation program.
The program, which was designed to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for borrowers whose incomes were below a certain threshold — up to $20,000 if they had been Pell Grant recipients — was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled unconstitutional</a> by a 6-3 margin, with Roberts saying that the COVID-era HEROES Act did not give Joe Biden the authority to act unilaterally on the issue.
&#8220;The Secretary asserts that the HEROES Act grants him the authority to cancel $430 billion of student loan principal. It does not. We hold today that the Act allows the Secretary to ‘waive or modify’ existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the Education Act, not to rewrite that statute from the ground up,&#8221; Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
The Chief Justice went on to use a statement made by Pelosi to bolster his point, noting that she had agreed Biden had the authority to make some changes in the time or manner that payments were made, but not to waive them altogether.
&#8220;People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not,&#8221; she said in July of 2021. &#8220;He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.&#8221;
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HAHAHAHAHA Justice Roberts cited Nancy Pelosi in the majority opinion when she said Biden doesn&#39;t have the power to cancel student debt. <a href="https://t.co/mhhyniRPpa">pic.twitter.com/mhhyniRPpa</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674790244468793344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Despite her apparent misgivings at the time, Pelosi later appeared to support the plan. In August of 2022, just over a year later, she cheered Biden&#8217;s efforts in a tweet, saying, &#8220;@POTUS’ bold action is a strong step in Democrats’ fight to expand access to higher education. By delivering historic targeted student debt relief to millions of borrowers, more working families will be able to meet their kitchen table needs as they recover from the pandemic.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>’ bold action is a strong step in Democrats’ fight to expand access to higher education.
By delivering historic targeted student debt relief to millions of borrowers, more working families will be able to meet their kitchen table needs as they recover from the pandemic. <a href="https://t.co/nHkBLNvqeG">https://t.co/nHkBLNvqeG</a>
&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1562470835641692164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi has not yet commented on the Court&#8217;s decision to strike the program in its entirety.

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Supreme Court Quoted Pelosi In Decision That Killed Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation

Supreme Court Quoted Pelosi In Decision That Killed Biden's Student Debt Cancellation

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In a stinging defeat for the Biden administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the COVID-era HEROES Act did not give the White House authority to unilaterally forgive federally subsidized student loans.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the 6-3 majority, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf">saying</a>, “The Secretary asserts that the HEROES Act grants him the authority to cancel $430 billion of student loan principal. It does not. We hold today that the Act allows the Secretary to &#8216;waive or modify&#8217; existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the Education Act, not to rewrite that statute from the ground up.&#8221;
The decision was made along ideological lines, as Chief Justice Roberts was joined in the majority by Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barret, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas.
The first case was decided unanimously, with all justices ruling in Department of Education v. Brown that the two petitioners who were denied debt relief under the program did not have standing to sue the Department of Education. The second case, Biden v. Nebraska, upheld the right of the several GOP states involved in the lawsuit to sue the Biden administration, clearing the hurdle necessary to present their argument before the court. Roberts bluntly contended in the majority opinion, “Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree.”
Student loan forgiveness has been on many Democrats&#8217; wishlists for years, as 43 million Americans struggle to pay an average of $28,950 in student loans that can take decades to pay off, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student-loan-debt-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rose to popularity in both the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries offering to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/06/24/student-loans-bernie-sanders/?sh=780b2f083fc2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wipe out</a> all $1.6 trillion in student loan debt without any eligibility requirements, as well as making public colleges and universities free on a national level.
In a dissent joined by joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan wrote,&#8221;[T]his Court today decides that some 40 million Americans will not receive the benefits the plan provides, because (so says the Court) that assistance is too &#8216;significant.'&#8221; Kagan claims that not only does the Biden administration have the right to cancel student debt en-masse, but that the six GOP states did not even have standing to challenge the plan in the first place, &#8220;They [the six states] oppose the Secretary’s loan cancellation plan on varied policy and legal grounds. But as everyone agrees, those objections are just general grievances; they do not show the particularized injury needed to bring suit.&#8221;
The Biden administration&#8217;s plan sought to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blockbuster-supreme-court-decisions-student-loans-affirmative-action/story?id=100378197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eliminate</a> $400 billion of student loans for roughly 40 million qualifying Americans making less than $125,000 or couples making less than $250,000. The Department of Education&#8217;s online form granted approved applicants up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4068249-student-loan-debt-borrowers-brace-for-supreme-court-decision/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hill. Approximately 26 million Americans filled out the form and 16 million were accepted prior to the plan’s termination by the Supreme Court and before the debt would be forgiven.
The administration argued in court that the plan was authorized by the HEROES COVID-relief Act passed in 2021 as well as a statute in the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, which supposedly allows the Department of Education to waive and/or modify student loans in response to a national emergency, which in this case was the COVID pandemic.
In response to this claim, Roberts remarked that the Biden administration had modified the aforementioned statute “in the same sense that the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility — it has abolished them and supplanted them with a new regime entirely.” Roberts ruled that the statute had been stretched far too much and that a mass-cancellation program of this scale required specific congressional approval to move forward, per The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/supreme-court-decision-student-loan-forgiveness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a>.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Admin’s $430B Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme

Biden Student Loan Program Axed By Supreme Court 

The U.S. Senate passed a Republican-led bill on Thursday that would put an end to President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/student-debt-cancellation-may-cause-some-disenrolled-college-students-to-return-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel massive amounts of student debt</a> — and immediately lift the freeze on student loan payments and interest.
The Senate passed the measure on Thursday with a 52-46 vote — mostly along party lines, but Senators John Tester (D-MT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joined Republicans and tipped the scales in their favor. Two other Democratic Senators — Michael Bennet of Colorado and Mark Warner of Virginia — did not cast a vote.
&#8220;@POTUS&#8216; student loan socialism would shift hundreds of billions of dollars in debt from high earners who chose to incur it onto American taxpayers who did not,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. “But thanks to the leadership of @SenBillCassidy, @JohnCornyn, and @SenJoniErnst, the Senate has a chance to stop this.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#39; student loan socialism would shift hundreds of billions of dollars in debt from high earners who chose to incur it onto American taxpayers who did not. But thanks to the leadership of <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenBillCassidy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnCornyn</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJoniErnst</a>, the Senate has a chance to stop this.
&mdash; Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell/status/1664292591804854273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The House passed the bill last week, but as POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/senate-repeals-bidens-student-debt-relief-00099682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday, neither the House nor the Senate passed the legislation by a wide enough margin to override the veto that will certainly come from the White House.
&#8220;Unfortunately, the president is guaranteed to veto the measure, and there are not enough Democrats in the House and Senate to be willing to override his veto,&#8221; Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said.
Biden&#8217;s student loan cancellation program offers debt relief of up to $10,000 for borrowers who made less than $125,000 in 2020 and 2021 — or for married couples who made a combined total of less than $250,000 in that time. Borrowers who received Pell Grants are eligible for up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness.
The plan is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/politics/student-loan-forgiveness-biden-senate-vote/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently awaiting a ruling</a> from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-prepares-to-hear-arguments-about-bidens-student-debt-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> — which will likely come in late June or early July — to determine whether or not it can be allowed to take effect at all.
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Regardless of the high court&#8217;s decision, the debt ceiling deal that was just recently reached also includes a provision that would end the freeze on payments and interest — a move that the White House agreed to in part because they said it was always the plan to have borrowers resume their regular payments.

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Senate Passes Bill Axing Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

Senate Passes Bill Axing Biden's Student Debt Relief Plan

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