Just The News Biden unveiled a student loan forgiveness 2.0 plan on Friday in an apparent attempt to dodge the Supreme Court’s June decision.
President Joe Biden’s education chief sent a mass email to student loan borrowers claiming the Supreme Court erred in striking down the cancellation of their debt, a fresh attack on the integrity of the justices that generated an instant rebuke from Congress.
“We believe the Supreme Court got it wrong,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote in the email, which was sent to Just the News by several borrowers who received it over the last few days.
The department is “taking action aimed at opening an alternative path to debt relief for working and middle-class borrowers,” Cardona added in the email. “We started the process to provide relief to as many people as we can, as fast as we can, through the rule-making process.”
Members of Congress told Just the News on Monday they found Cardona’s email to be an inappropriate attack on the legitimacy of the nation’s highest court.
“It’s reprehensible number one. I mean, this flies in the face of the Supreme Court ruling,” Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., a member of the House Education Committee, told the Just the News, No Noise television show Monday night.
“This is the Supreme Court, the law of the land, and you have Secretary Cardona who says ‘Man, don’t worry about the Supreme Court. Really the only voice of reason, the only voice that really matters is mine. I mean, at the end of the day, who does this? Who does this guy think he is?” she said. “I mean, we have three co-equal branches of government for a reason. It’s the Supreme Court’s job to interpret the law, not Cardona’s. So stay in your lane.”
Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott condemned what he said was disrespect for the Supreme Court, saying Biden effectively reneged on the debt limit deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy by claiming he was resuming student loan payments then abruptly offering a new plan to forgive the debt.
Biden’s actions, Scott told the John Solomon Reports podcast, “is just proof that there’s an intent to mislead from the administration as much as there is a lack of respect for the Supreme Court.”…
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