US Supreme Court blocks Biden student loan forgiveness

Jun 30, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    92% Negative

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"Both Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump relied upon the HEROES Act begiing in 2020 to repeatedly pause student loan payments and halt interest from accruing to alleviate financial strain on student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Positive
34% Conservative
"Biden plans to aounce new actions on Friday to protect student loan borrowers in the wake of the ruling, a White House source said."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The ruling came a day after the Supreme Court effectively prohibited affirmative action policies long used by U.S. colleges and universities to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority students."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt -- a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Both Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump relied upon the HEROES Act begiing in 2020 to repeatedly pause student loan payments and halt interest from accruing to alleviate financial strain on student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Both Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump relied upon the HEROES Act begiing in 2020 to repeatedly pause student loan payments and halt interest from accruing to alleviate financial strain on student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Biden plans to aounce new actions on Friday to protect student loan borrowers in the wake of the ruling, a White House source said."
Positive
4% Conservative
"During February arguments in the loans case, Biden's administration said the plan was authorized under a 2003 federal law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or HEROES Act, which empowers the U.S. education secretary to waive or modify student financial assistance during war or national emergencies."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Biden is seeking re-election next year."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Biden on Thursday said the court, with its conservative majority, was an institution out of touch with the country's basic values."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Twenty-six million U.S. borrowers applied for relief between when Biden aounced the plan in August 2022 until last November, when lower courts blocked the plan."
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-8% Liberal
"In the case brought by individual borrowers named Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor, a federal judge in Texas ruled in November 2022 that the plan exceeded the Biden administration's authority - a ruling that the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold pending appeal."
Positive
0% Conservative
"In the case brought by individual borrowers named Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor, a federal judge in Texas ruled in November 2022 that the plan exceeded the Biden administration's authority - a ruling that the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold pending appeal."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Some 53"
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina challenged Biden's debt relief."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Biden's plan fulfilled his 2020 campaign promise to cancel a portion of $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt but was criticized by Republicans who called it an overreach of his authority and an unfair benefit to college-educated borrowers while other borrowers received no such relief."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The justices ruled against Biden in a 6-3 decision favoring six conservative-leaning states that objected to the policy."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The court's action dealt blow to the 26 million U.S. borrowers who applied for relief after Biden aounced the plan in August 2022 and a political setback for the Democratic president."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt -- a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise."
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Both Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump relied upon the HEROES Act beginning in 2020 to repeatedly pause student loan payments and halt interest from accruing to alleviate financial strain on student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
55% : Biden plans to announce new actions on Friday to protect student loan borrowers in the wake of the ruling, a White House source said.
48% : The ruling came a day after the Supreme Court effectively prohibited affirmative action policies long used by U.S. colleges and universities to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority students.
27% : The U.S Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt -- a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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