President Joe Biden said he would use the Higher Education Act to pursue debt forgiveness.
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens. | Evan Vucci/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden vowed Friday that his administration will continue to pursue student loan forgiveness in the wake of a ruling from the Supreme Court invalidating his proposal to forgive student loans owed to the federal government.
In a speech at the White House Friday afternoon, Biden said he was “not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale” and would use the Higher Education Act to allow the Department of Education to release and waive loans. Biden also said the administration would create a “ramp repayment program” to help borrowers struggling to pay their loans when payments resume this fall.
Biden also criticized Republicans for what he called their “hypocrisy” and said the Supreme Court “misinterpreted the Constitution” in ruling against his debt relief plan. On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 of student debt per person owed to the federal government, ruling in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that the president could not use emergency “waiver” powers tied to the Covid-19 pandemic to implement massive debt forgiveness. The Biden administration had used the HEROES Act, a bill passed in 2003 in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept.
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