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POTUS & Democrats Still Committed to Student Loan Debt Relief Even if SCOTUS Is Not
One in a spate of disappointing decisions the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down recently is its blocking of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan that would have wiped out $20,000 in federal student loan debt for millions.
Naturally this is being lauded on the right as a “win” against “the radical left’s effort to use the money of taxpayers who played by the rules and repaid their debts in order to cancel the debt of bankers and lawyers in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.”
(Actual quote from former VP and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Pence.)
But the avenue the president expected to follow was only one.
As the saying goes, “When one door closes, another opens,” and President Biden is simply going to open another door and pursue another route.
The plan the SCOTUS shot down involved an executive order authorizing the Department of Education canceling up to $20,000 in student debt under a provision in the HEROES Act.
The right-wing SCOTUS majority, though, argued the White House overstepped its authority.
“The question here is not whether something should be done; it is who has the authority to do it,” Chief Justice…
