Biden student debt relief plan put on hold by appellate court
One of the more controversial policies of the Biden administration was the student loan forgiveness plan.
The original plan was legally challenged and wound up before the Supreme Court, where Biden lost.
Yet, he continued to piece-meal the plan, handing out billions in forgiveness and sticking the American taxpayer with another bill, but a judge just slammed the brakes on his plan.
It's Done
Rather than obey the Supreme Court order, Biden found emergency power loopholes to move forward with his plan.
An example of this was Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE), which is an income-driven repayment plan.
Several red states have challenged the plan, and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals just handed them a huge victory.
U.S. Circuit Judge L. Steven Grasz, a Donald Trump appointee, agreed that Biden's Secretary of Education overstepped the bounds of the office with this plan.
Grasz stated, “The Secretary has gone well beyond this authority by designing a plan where loans are largely forgiven rather than repaid."
The plan lowered monthly payments for those who qualified or sped up their repayment cycles.
In some cases, borrowers' monthly payments were lowered to $0, giving them complete forgiveness of the loan while dramatically reducing the debt of others.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took a victory lap after the ruling was issued, stating, “Though @JoeBiden is out of office, this precedent is imperative to ensuring a President cannot force working Americans to foot the bill for someone else’s Ivy League debt. HUGE win.
This was one of the most infuriating policies, along with immigration, showing that Biden was ignoring a Supreme Court ruling and circumventing our laws and the Constitution.
For all the heat that Donald Trump takes from the media and Democrats about being a dictator, everyone seems to forget how Biden just blatantly ignored the law to do what he wanted on both of these fronts.