{"id":1625586,"date":"2022-08-29T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625586"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:05:46","slug":"over-90-republicans-demand-pelosi-respond-to-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-90-republicans-demand-pelosi-respond-to-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 90 Republicans Demand Pelosi Respond to Biden\u2019s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-90-republicans-demand-pelosi-respond-to-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nearly 100 Republican lawmakers have demanded a response from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-speaker-of-the-house-nancy-pelosi\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) after President Joe Biden\u2019s announcement that he would forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-student-debt\">student debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The demand came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/589330193\/Rep-Jody-Hice-and-93-colleagues-letter-to-House-Speaker-Pelosi-about-President-Biden-s-student-loan-handout?secret_password=7mLx23VNqowwL5VyKwcG\">in a letter<\/a>\u00a0from Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) that was co-signed by 93 other Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 24, after months of speculation that such a move was imminent, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-admin-to-cancel-10000-of-student-loan-debt-for-millions-despite-inflation-concerns_4685966.html\">announced the cancellation of as much as $20,000 in federal student loan debt<\/a> for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for non-Pell Grant recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The letter noted earlier comments from Pelosi in July 2021 saying that Biden did not have the authority to grant such wide-reaching student loan relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress,\u201d Pelosi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p> Loan Forgiveness Won\u2019t Solve Problem <\/p>\n<p>Beyond what they called \u201cmassive executive overreach\u201d by Biden, whose move they said was illegal, the Republican signatories also contended that the cancellation would only further raise higher education costs.<\/p>\n<p>The approximately $300 billion cancellation, Hice wrote,\u00a0\u201cwill drive up the cost of higher education, exacerbating the very problem President Biden pretends to address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoticeably absent from the President\u2019s plan is any plausible legal authority to implement such a policy,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cThe legislative and executive branches each possess defined powers under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Hice said there\u2019s no provision of the Constitution nor any act of Congress, including the Higher Education Act, that grants the president or the secretary of education the authority to unilaterally forgive student loans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we may disagree on many things, your statement in July 2021 was correct,\u201d Hice wrote to Pelosi. \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s student loan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 Republican lawmakers have demanded a response from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after President Joe Biden\u2019s announcement that he would forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt. The demand came in a letter\u00a0from Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) that was co-signed by 93 other Republicans. 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