{"id":1660529,"date":"2022-09-27T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660529"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:22:10","slug":"biden-administrations-student-debt-relief-order-is-illegal-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administrations-student-debt-relief-order-is-illegal-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration\u2019s Student Debt Relief Order Is Illegal: Lawsuits"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-administrations-student-debt-relief-order-is-illegal-lawsuits%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=1660529&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>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s administration has been hit with the first lawsuits against a recently unveiled order that would\u2014unless blocked\u2014cancel thousands of dollars in debt for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, a Democrat, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, a Biden appointee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-admin-to-cancel-10000-of-student-loan-debt-for-millions-despite-inflation-concerns_4685966.html\">announced the order in August<\/a>, revealing that people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-student-debt\">student debt<\/a> could receive up to $20,000 in relief if they meet certain conditions. Administration officials say over 40 million people are likely eligible for the relief.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, according to the suits, is that the order is not legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing about loan cancellation is lawful or appropriate. In an end-run around Congress, the administration threatens to enact a profound and transformational policy that will have untold economic impacts. The administration\u2019s lawless action should be stopped immediately,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22962526-indiana-suit-against-debt-forgiveness-plan\">one suit<\/a>, filed in federal court in Indiana, states.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cplain language and context\u201d of the law that the administration cited does not give Cardona the authority to discharge or forgive student loan debt on a blanket basis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22962578-oregon-suit-against-student-debt-cancellation-order\">the other suit<\/a>, filed in U.S. court in Oregon, says.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education referred a request for comment to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a query.<\/p>\n<p> Legal Basis <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government holds approximately $1.6 trillion in student debt, for more than 45 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The debt is held in part by two systems\u2014the Direct Loan Program and the\u00a0Federal Family Education Loan Program. Under Cardona\u2019s order, $10,000 to $20,000 in debt would be canceled for individuals who earn less than $125,000 per year or households that earn less than $250,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The administration cited the\u00a0Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, which says that the Department of Education can\u00a0\u201cwaive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs\u201d when \u201cnecessary in connection with a war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has been hit with the first lawsuits against a recently unveiled order that would\u2014unless blocked\u2014cancel thousands of dollars in debt for millions of Americans. Biden, a Democrat, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, a Biden appointee, announced the order in August, revealing that people with student debt could receive up to $20,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}