Supreme Court rejects Biden's plan to erase student loan debt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Biden was to announce a new set of actions to protect student loan borrowers later today, said a White House official.
55% : The states did not even rely on any direct injury to themselves, but instead pointed to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a state-created company that services student loans.
51% :Advocacy groups supporting debt cancellation condemned the decision while demanding that Biden find another avenue to fulfill his promise of debt relief.
46% : A sign reading "cancel student debt" is seen outside the Supreme Court, today, in Washington.
46% : In more than three hours of arguments last February, conservative justices voiced their skepticism that the administration had the authority to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions.
45% : The forgiveness program would have canceled $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income.
36% : A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans.
34% : Biden had once doubted his own authority to broadly cancel student debt, but announced the program last August.

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