Joe Biden is defying the U.S. Supreme Court and gets no pushback from the media at all.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Biden Moves Forward With Next Debt Relief Plan Despite Legal ChallengesPresident Joe Biden’s latest debt-relief plan would benefit eight million people, if enacted, but the plan will likely face legal challenges and might never see the light of day.The long-awaited proposal, released Friday and geared toward helping borrowers experiencing financial hardship, is the final piece of the Biden administration’s second attempt to provide student debt relief to millions of Americans. The first effort, which would have benefited 43 million borrowers, was struck down by the Supreme Court in June 2023, prompting the president to go back to the drawing board.The newest plan builds on the administration’s proposal released earlier this year that provides a pathway to relief for borrowers who owe more they initially borrowed or who have spent more than 20 years paying back their loans, among other groups. Under that plan, which is not yet final and on hold in the courts, the department would forgive all or some of nearly 28 million Americans’ student loans.But debt-relief advocates have repeatedly argued that the plan was incomplete without a catchall measure to help borrowers who are experiencing financial hardship. Department officials said the plan is crucial, as no one should worry so much about student debt that they forgo pursuing a college degree entirely.“The whole point of taking out a student loan in the first place is to invest in the future, to invest in skills and education in order to expand opportunity and to get ahead, not to fall into a debt trap when hardship strikes,” national economic adviser Lael Brainard said in a press call Thursday. “When hardship strikes, student debt relief is unequivocally good for borrowers [and] good for economic opportunity.”As with previous iterations of debt-relief plans, criticism of the proposal was swift and forceful, with conservative advocacy groups and congressional Republicans decrying it as nothing more than a third attempt to shift repayment responsibility. Supporters of the proposal applauded the Biden administration for providing new routes for forgiveness and standing up to Republicans.
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