{"id":2210397,"date":"2024-04-01T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-faces-fresh-political-peril-with-latest-student-loans-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:48:43","slug":"biden-faces-fresh-political-peril-with-latest-student-loans-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-faces-fresh-political-peril-with-latest-student-loans-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden encounters new political risks due to recent student loans lawsuit"},"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\">22<\/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-faces-fresh-political-peril-with-latest-student-loans-lawsuit%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=2210397&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>A recent lawsuit \u200bchallenges President Joe Biden&#8217;s efforts to fulfill his campaign promise of\u200c student loan\u200b forgiveness. Despite facing legal setbacks, Biden\u2062 announced further debt relief\u2063 initiatives and faced a new lawsuit from\u200b Republican-led states. The issue remains \u2064contentious, with critics citing concerns \u2062over the legality and implications of such debt \u200dforgiveness efforts. The ongoing lawsuit\u2063 against President Joe \u200dBiden regarding student \u200bloan forgiveness highlights\u2062 the challenges\u200d he \u200cfaces in delivering on\u200b his campaign pledge. Despite encountering\u200d legal \u200cobstacles, Biden persists in proposing additional debt \u2062relief \u2063measures. However,\u2064 opposition \u2063from Republican-led states adds complexity to the issue, sparking \u200cdebates over the legality and consequences \u2063of these forgiveness endeavors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A fresh lawsuit revives an old challenge for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> \u2014 delivering on his 2020 campaign pledge to forgive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/student-loans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"student loan\">student loans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden announced in 2022 that he\u2019d \u201ccancel\u201d $10,000 of federal student debt per borrower, only to see his plan ruled illegal by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Supreme Court\">Supreme Court<\/a>. He has since announced another $144 billion in student debt writeoffs and created a program to lower future payments, but he was slapped with a new lawsuit by a coalition of Republican-led states on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast time defendants tried this the Supreme Court said that this action was illegal,\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2943170\/kansas-coalition-states-sues-biden-student-loan-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"portion of the suit\">portion of the suit<\/a> from Kansas and 10 other states. \u201cNothing since then has changed, other than introducing more legal errors into this rule\u2019s underlying analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Missouri has promised to deliver a second suit making similar arguments next week, creating the possibility that Biden will once again face a political setback on student loans that could dampen enthusiasm for his reelection campaign in 2024, particularly among younger voters.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has aggressively pursued student debt transfers even without congressional support. His original plan would have written off at least $400 billion of debt, and since it was struck down, he has announced new rounds of cancellation using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2932356\/how-biden-defied-supreme-court-to-cancel-144-billion-in-student-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ifferent legal justification\">different legal justification<\/a>, plus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2452005\/biden-launches-student-loan-website-for-save-debt-relief-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ifferent legal justification\">Saving on a Valuable Education<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2452005\/biden-launches-student-loan-website-for-save-debt-relief-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ifferent legal justification\">Plan<\/a>, to lower loan payments drastically.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn Wharton Budget Model <a href=\"https:\/\/budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu\/issues\/2023\/7\/17\/biden-income-driven-repayment-budget-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated<\/a> that SAVE could add $475 billion to the national debt over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Those moves have outraged Republicans who say Biden is breaking the law for what is effectively a net wealth transfer from people who did not go to college to people who did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of Americans recognize that it\u2019s unfair to do that,\u201d Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, who led the lawsuit, told the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em> \u201cIt is effectively a gift, a grant, from the federal government. Well, who pays that? It doesn\u2019t come out of thin air, it comes from the rest of us taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But advocates say removing the burden of student debt will allow younger people to focus on bigger goals, such as buying houses or starting families. More importantly from a political perspective, they say it\u2019s popular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s politically valuable for right-wing politicians to try and twist the knife on a president that they perceive as being vulnerable on this issue,\u201d said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center. \u201cBut the polling shows that this is a winning hand for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pierce\u2019s group released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borrowersaction.org\/copy-of-3-7-2024-presser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"poll\">poll<\/a> that found roughly 75% of voters support government action to address student loan debt, with 50% of registered voters supporting government action to cancel the debt. About 44 million people in the United States have federal student loans.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment, but the president certainly appears to believe that student loans are a winning topic, pushing it repeatedly and openly bragging that the Supreme Court \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2024\/01\/28\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-political-event-at-south-carolinas-first-in-the-nation-dinner-columbia-sc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"didn\u2019t stop me\">didn\u2019t stop me<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House hosted a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2940739\/kamala-harris-launches-day-of-action-to-boost-student-loans-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Day of Action\">Day of Action<\/a>\u201d last week to promote its student loans programs, featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, and more than 40 organizations ranging from labor unions to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>But the strategy could prove risky, especially if the courts side with Kansas and Missouri. Biden faced a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2876037\/biden-administration-faces-tough-questions-as-student-loan-plan-held-up-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"harsh questions\">harsh scrutiny<\/a> after his original plan was blocked just two days after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey used the promise of student debt cancellation to induce young voter turn out \u2014 knowing it wasn\u2019t going anywhere [because] they relied on faulty legal authority,\u201d former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briebriejoy\/status\/1591155053829967872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1591155053829967872%7Ctwgr%5E83dabd652cb9c160fd98b5cc555bdff2e9cfbf92%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Fformer-bernie-sanders-press-secretary-accuses-biden-of-using-faulty-student-loan-forgiveness-order-for-votes%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> on X. \u201cHard to convince me the Biden admin didn\u2019t do this intentionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time around, the lawsuits are coming seven months before Election Day, meaning they could block Biden\u2019s plans with enough time to leave a lot of voters disappointed and angry. That scenario might leave Biden with a backup strategy of blaming Republicans, something he is already pursuing when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2909767\/state-of-the-union-2024-biden-blames-republicans-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"southern border crisis\">southern border crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Democratic strategist Michael Stratton predicted that the president will come out ahead either way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president should stick to his guns and continue to pursue the effort in the face of these lawsuits,\u201d Stratton said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the Republican element will be obvious from the lawsuits and that Biden should focus on his own efforts instead rather than decrying the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I made a commitment and I\u2019m standing by it,&#8217;\u201d Stratton said, paraphrasing what he thinks Biden\u2019s message should be. \u201c\u2018I\u2019m having difficulties with the Republicans, but I\u2019m as good as my word and I\u2019m working on it.\u2019 In my mind, there\u2019s no downside.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent lawsuit brings back a longstanding issue for President Joe Biden: fulfilling his promise to forgive student loans made during his 2020 campaign. Despite announcing a plan in 2022 to erase $10,000 of federal student debt per borrower, the Supreme Court deemed it unlawful. 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