Although the student loan forgiveness started much lower than anticipated — it was a start but not the end in a decades long war on the government of America keeping its people locked in poverty for life. Repuiblicans according to numerous reports are now plotting numerous lawsuits in an effort to ensure that nobody in America gets student loan forgiveness mostly under false pretenses.
Regardless this isn’t the end of student loan forgiveness in the United States and everybody should continue to pressure their representatives. Nobody should be in debt until death simply for having gone to get an education to better society and themselves.
Republicans maintain that student loan forgiveness is an ‘act of robbing the poor to give to the rich’ even though Joe Biden ‘s plan has been designed to only give relief to those who meet the rather strict criteria. Borrowers who make less than $125,000 can have up to $10,000 forgiven and those who additionally used pell grants can have up to $20,000 forgiven by the feds. Republicans want to stop this because they are bent on ensuring nobody gets help.
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It’ll be a tough road for Republicans to follow-up with any suits against Biden simply because it is unclear who actually has the power to do so anyway. Individuals cannot bring suit against the government according to a previous Supreme Court ruling (individual citizens aren’t allowed to do this.) So that would mean that Republicans would have to win control of the House and Senate and then have a chamber of the government sue the administration in an effort to stop the program.
As many know the loans are largely a federal program and not a state one which means that Republican states aren’t burdened by student loan(s) or the act of forgiving them despite what they may say. The administration made the moves under the Heroes Act of 2003 which it maintains it has the authority to do so under this previously enacted legislation.
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