September 4, 2024
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Republican-led states sue over Biden’s student debt relief plan

The lawsuit, led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, was joined by Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota, and Ohio….reports Asian Lite News

Seven GOP-led states are suing to block President Biden’s policy that would lower or eliminate debt for millions of student loan borrowers.

The lawsuit claims the Department of Education is “unlawfully trying to mass cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of loans” before the rule is finalized.

The lawsuit, led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, was joined by Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota, and Ohio.

The lawsuit, first reported by The Washington Post, argues that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is secretly, “through cloak and dagger,” trying to forgive student loan debt after courts stopped him twice before.

In a statement, Bailey said his latest lawsuit challenges the Biden-Harris administration’s “third and weakest attempt” to cancel loans in mass “in the dark of night” without letting Congress or the public know.

 “We successfully halted their first two illegal student loan cancellations schemes; I have no doubt we will secure yet another win to block the third one,” Bailey’s statement said. “They may be throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, but my office is meeting them every step of the way.”

The new plan to forgive student debt has yet to be finalized and will be some time this fall. No debt can be forgiven before then, but the lawsuit argues the Biden administration is cutting corners to begin cancelling debt “potentially this week.”

“That is both extraordinarily inequitable and also expressly violates a statute prohibiting the Secretary from implementing rules like this one sooner than 60 days after publication,” the suit said.

The lawsuit alleges Cardona knows that student loans that have already been forgiven cannot be turned back by states, and that’s why he is “trying to quietly rush this rule out too quickly for anybody to sue.”

The lawsuit describes the plan as not only Cardona’s “weakest” of the three so far proposed but the “most aggressive” as it could start canceling loans as soon as this week.

“That is both extraordinarily inequitable and also expressly violates a statute prohibiting the Secretary from implementing rules like this one sooner than 60 days after publication,” the lawsuit states, while accusing Cardona of “trying to quietly rush this rule out too quickly for anybody to sue.”

Bailey said the plan was the Biden administration’s attempt to saddle working Americans with “Ivy League debt.”

“We successfully halted their first two illegal student loan cancellation schemes; I have no doubt we will secure yet another win to block the third one,” he said in a statement. “They may be throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, but my office is meeting them every step of the way.”

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