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The Biden administration has unveiled the details of a new plan to forgive student loan debt, suggesting that millions of Americans could start seeing debt relief as soon as this fall.
The new set of proposals are yet to be finalized. It’s President Joe Biden’s second attempt to implement broad student loan forgiveness after his first plan was struck down by the Supreme Court last summer.
The new policies, when combined with the narrower actions already taken by the Biden administration to cancel student debt, would benefit more than 30 million Americans, according to a fact sheet provided by the White House.
That means that nearly 70 perc ent of all federal student loan borrowers would see their debt reduced or fully cancelled due to Biden’s policies. But first, the plans must be finalised, a process that could take months and must withstand any potential legal challenges.
Biden’s new student loan forgiveness proposals could set up another fight with Republicans. Several conservative-led states and groups sued the Biden administration over the first student forgiveness program, arguing that the executive branch had overstepped its authority.
So far, 4 million people have seen their federal student debt cancelled under Biden, totalling 146 billion dollars.
As per White House press secretary President Biden will use every tool available to cancel student loan debt for as many borrowers as possible, no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stand in his way.
After the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s first plan last year, the President vowed to pursue another pathway to delivering student loan debt relief.
Since then, the Department of Education has been conducting a formal and lengthy process, known as negotiated rulemaking, to develop a new student loan forgiveness program.
Even though Biden’s sweeping student loan forgiveness got knocked down by the Supreme Court, his administration has still cancelled more student loan debt than under any other President.
