Supreme Court rejects Biden's plan to wipe away student loan debt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Biden said payment requirements for student loans would resume in coming weeks, but he would work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to ease borrowers' threat of default if they fall behind over the next year.
52% :Advocacy groups supporting debt cancellation condemned the decision while demanding Biden find another avenue to fulfill his promise of debt relief.
51% : (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Jordan Braithwaite, 21, center, an undergrad at Grambling State University facing over $10,000 in student loans, demonstrates outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 30, 2023, 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.
34% : Biden had once doubted his own authority to broadly cancel student debt, but announced the program last August.
32% : A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debts for millions of Americans.
32% : A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debts for millions of Americans.
32% : A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debts for millions of Americans.

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