US appeals court rejects Biden’s bid to reinstate student debt plan
WORLD 02 December 2022 - 02:03
A federal appeals court on november 30 declined to put on hold a Texas judge’s ruling that said President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful.
The New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Biden administration’s request to pause a judge’s Nov. 10 order vacating the $400 billion student debt relief program in a lawsuit pursued by a conservative advocacy group, CNBC reports.
The decision by Fort Worth, Texas-based US District Judge Mark Pittman was one of two nationally that has prevented the US Department of Education under Biden from moving forward with granting debt relief to millions of borrowers.
The administration has asked the US Supreme Court to similarly lift an order by the St. Louis-based 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals that, at the request of six Republican-led states, had barred it from cancelling student loans.
Biden announced in August that the US government would forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, or $250,000 for married couples. Students who received Pell Grants to benefit lower-income college students will have up to $20,000 of their debt canceled.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden promised to help debt-saddled former college students. Biden’s program has drawn opposition from Republicans, who have portrayed it as shifting the burden of debt from wealthy elites to lower-income Americans.
The Congressional Budget Office in September calculated that the debt forgiveness program run would cost taxpayers about $400 billion.
About 26 million Americans have applied for student loan forgiveness, and the US Department of Education had already approved requests from 16 million by the time Pittman, an appointee of former Republican Donald Trump, issued his ruling.
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