Biden administration believes student loan forgiveness plan will survive

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Biden administration believes student loan forgiveness plan will survive

US President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin, April 8, 2024. 

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The aid package is narrower

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The majority-************* court ruled that Biden didn’t have the authority to erase $400 billion in student debt without prior authorization from Congress. Biden had tried to forgive the debt of nearly all 40 million federal student loan borrowers, with many people getting up to $20,000 in cancellation.

This time, the Biden administration has narrowed its aid by targeting specific groups of borrowers, including those who’ve been in repayment for decades or attended schools of low-financial value. It hopes this will help the plan survive in front of a court that is skeptical of broad loan cancellation, experts say.

More than 25 million borrowers still stand to benefit from the program.

As a result, for critics of broad student loan forgiveness, Biden’s new plan looks a great deal like his first.

After the president touted his revised relief program on April 8, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a ***********, 

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 that Biden “is trying to unabashedly eclipse the Constitution.”

“See you in court,” Bailey wrote.

There’s a different legal justification

In addition to the fact that this effort is a more targeted aid program, the U.S. Department of Education is also using a different law — the Higher Education Act — as its legal justification. Biden’s first forgiveness plan was based on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or HEROES Act of 2003.

The HEROES Act was passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 ********** attacks and grants the president broad power to revise student loan programs during national emergencies. The Biden administration initially tried to use this law because, at the time, the country was under a national emergency status from the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, the ************* justices didn’t buy that argument.

″’Can the Secretary use his powers to abolish $430 billion in student loans, completely canceling loan balances for 20 million borrowers, as a pandemic winds down to its end?'” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion for 

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. “We can’t believe the answer would be yes.”

The HEA, which the Biden administration is now using, was 

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 in 1965 and allows the 

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 some authority to waive or release borrowers’ education debt.

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was running for president in 2020, she pointed to the HEA as a law that would allow her to deliver sweeping loan relief.

“This authority provides a safety valve for federal student loan programs, letting the Department of Education use its discretion to wipe away loans even when they do not meet the eligibility criteria for more specific cancellation programs,” Warren wrote in her

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back then.

Biden administration is using rulemaking process

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