A Republican-led effort to block one of President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief programs in court has succeeded just days before it was set to go into effect.
Decisions by U.S. District Judges John Ross in Missouri and Daniel Crabtree in Kansas, both appointees of former President Barack Obama, on Monday sided with GOP state attorneys general in thwarting Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, according to Reuters.
The SAVE plan, which was set to go into effect on July 1, was initially announced by Biden in 2022 alongside a since-canceled larger plan that would have erased up to $20,000 in student loan debt for tens of millions of borrowers.
Republicans torpedoing this is political stupidity… it’s basically a free win for Biden where he looks like he did a good thing and doesn’t actually need to allocate the funds.
It’s not stupid if it stops Biden from looking good. The same thing happened during the negotiations for Obamacare.
Except that Biden looks great - far more young voters will be peeved over the GOP blocking this than would have actually benefitted from the policy. “Biden tried to forgive your loans but the GOP just had to block it in the courts” - it might make Biden look somewhat incompetent but it mostly just makes Republicans look like they hate young people who are struggling.
…far more young voters will be peeved over the GOP blocking this than would have actually benefitted from the policy.
Well, the ones who are actually paying attention will. The GOP is throwing everything the legally can to try to remain in power and get their orange dude elected to push the christofashism.
The Biden team needs to take their gloves off and go full out blasting all the shit the GOP is doing on every possible platform and media available with lawyers ready to intercept any GOP sue to silence them.
Also, get Kyle Clark to moderate the presidential debate, the guy is a GOAT https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREMgbVL/
Typical republican bullshit. All they want is suffering.
I always wonder if this was by design. What I mean is, Biden and them knew it would most certainly fail in this way, yet it looks good during the election year because “at least he tried”. I have no evidence for this, just tin foil hat speculation.
the supreme court literally rewrote an existing law to overturn the original ruling. Like it explicitly says “the debt can be forgiven in a crisis” and was used by the trump admin to halt interest payments the supreme court ruling was literally going “not like this!”. Read the dissent on that case it points out how insane the ruling is.
He prob wants to campaign on “I’ll get it through, just need a second term”
It’s the american citizens that got stung, not biden
What ever happened to the loan forgiveness plan where all they were doing was correctly applying the law to loans that should have been legally forgiven already, but weren’t, due to bureaucracy?
