Biden offers new student debt relief plan, lashes out at GOP after Supreme Court ruling - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Addressing the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadelphia on Friday, Trump slammed Biden's efforts on student loans as "a way of trying to buy votes, that's all it was."
57% : Senior administration officials said Biden's top advisers had met frequently lately to prepare for a high court ruling on student loans.
53% : The White House efforts to forgive loans were an attempt to keep a Biden promise stretching back to his 2020 campaign to wipe out student loan debt -- an idea that was especially popular with young voters and progressives.
51% : The president said the new programs will take longer than his initial effort would have to ease student loan debt.
50% : Fifty-three percent of adults under age 30 said they approved of Biden's handling of student debt, compared with only 36% who approved of his job performance overall.
49% : A May poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 43% of U.S. adults approve of how Biden sought to handle student debt, similar to his approval rating overall of 40% in the same poll.
41% : The GOP has long countered that repaying student loans is a fairness issue, and many leading Republicans celebrated Friday's ruling.
33% : The Higher Education Act has been used to cancel student debt but never at this scale, and lawyers for the Trump administration concluded in 2021 that the education secretary "does not have statutory authority to provide blanket or mass cancellation" under the act.
25% : Betsy DeVos, who served as secretary of education under President Donald Trump, called Biden's original plan "deeply unfair to the majority of Americans who don't have student loans."

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