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GOP states sue Biden administration in effort to halt student loan forgiveness plan
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Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers.
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An Indiana-based lawyer argues that the program violates the Constitution and could put him in a worse-off position financially because of state taxes.
A conservative legal group is suing the Biden administration to block what it says is the president’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt.
President Joe Biden's plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt is facing its first serious legal challenge alleging it violates federal law and the Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation on Tuesday.
Republicans have vowed to block President Biden’s new student loan forgiveness plan in court. And a new lawsuit filed by a conservative legal organization seeks to do just that. But will it succeed?
Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration to try and halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans. They're accusing it of overstepping its executive
By Katie Lobosco, CNN Six Republican-led states sued President Joe Biden on Thursday in an effort to block his student loan forgiveness plan from taking effect. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Missouri by state attorneys general from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska and South Carolin…
Six Republican-led states on Thursday sued the Biden administration over plans to cancel student loan debt, a move the lawsuit says will hurt the working class at a time when the economy is already struggling.
Biden’s forgiveness program will cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income.
The lawsuit claims the president does not have the power to implement the plan through executive action and that it would worsen inflation without providing relief to the poor.
It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping proposal laid out by President Joe Biden in late August, when he said his administration would cancel up to $20,000 in education debt for huge numbers of borrowers.
Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over the president’s student debt relief plan, citing the coronavirus pandemic and states' financial instability as reasons for the lawsuit.
The lawsuit accuses President Biden of overstepping his authority in directing the government to cancel as much as $20,000 in student loan debt for millions of people.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—Six Republican-led states on Thursday filed a challenge to the Biden administration's student loan cancellation program in federal court in Missouri on Thursday.