Progressives Prepare to Mobilize If Supreme Court Blocks Student Debt Relief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : After being frozen during the coronavirus pandemic, student loan repayments are expected to restart in October -- a date cemented by a debt ceiling agreement reached last month by the Biden White House and House Republican leaders.
50% : Advocates are particularly alarmed by a possible scenario in which the Supreme Court blocks student debt cancellation and student loan repayments and interest accumulation resume weeks later, a double whammy for vulnerable borrowers who have been promised relief.
45% : In 2021, the Debt Collective crafted an executive order that would fully cancel the roughly $1.8 trillion in federal student loan debt currently held by more than 40 million borrowers in the U.S."Debt cancellation is totally legal," Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor told Bloomberg earlier this week.
42% :The conservative-dominated Supreme Court is set to rule this week on a pair of cases challenging the legality of the Biden administration's debt relief program, which aims to use emergency authority under the 2003 HEROES Act to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for eligible borrowers.
40% : "Let me be very clear: President Biden has the legal authority to cancel student loan debt," Warren continued.
39% : Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who has been pushing the Biden administration to ready an alternative relief plan, tweeted Tuesday that "we must continue the pause on student loan payments until we make good on the promise to forgive it."
31% : A White House spokesperson on Tuesday would not say whether the Biden administration has an alternative plan to cancel student debt as borrowers and campaigners across the U.S. braced for -- and prepared to mobilize in response to -- a Supreme Court ruling on the Education Department's pending relief program.

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