30 million student-loan borrowers get bad news after a Trump-appointed federal judge officially blocks Biden from carrying out broader debt cancellation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The Education Department had previously intended to begin canceling student debt in October, and it has yet to post the final rule for the relief.
57% : However, the lawsuit from the GOP attorneys general argued that, according to internal documents they obtained on communications between the department and servicers, the Education Department was preparing to cancel student debt ahead of schedule, which they said violated administrative procedure.
56% : "The ruling also wrote that a preliminary injunction is necessary, as it will preserve the status quo and prevent the administration from canceling student debt pending a final legal decision.
42% : On Thursday, Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern District of Missouri, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, placed a preliminary injunction on President Joe Biden's plan to cancel student debt under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

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