Supreme Court strikes down Biden's partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : So crushing is the burden of student loan debt that some 22 million borrowers applied for relief under the Biden plan in the first five days following the posting of the website.
55% : At a point when the Department of Education had already approved the loan relief applications of 16 million borrowers, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals put the program on ice and channeled the case to the Supreme Court.
49% : The explosion in student debt in the US has been fueled by the skyrocketing cost of higher education, which has more than doubled over the last two decades.
48% : He announced a new plan, based on the 1965 Higher Education Act, to make certain unspecified reductions in student loan debt.
46% : At the same time, government aid to higher education has steadily fallen.
41% : On the same day that the Supreme Court struck down the student debt relief program, it sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people by the same 6-3 margin, siding with a bigoted web designer who refuses to accept same-sex couples as customers.
39% : These measures, which themselves are likely to be challenged in the courts, are driven in large part by concerns that a surge in loan defaults could undermine trillions in financial assets tied to student loans.
38% : Echoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had absurdly denounced Biden's modest plan as "socialism," and expressing the fear within the ruling class of revolution, Roberts wrote:The [education] secretary's plan has "modified" the cited provisions only 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.
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35% : In so doing, Biden was following the example of Trump, who had used the HEROES Act three times to extend a moratorium on student loan interest payments and interest accrual due to the pandemic.

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