Just saying: If the US is to compete in the future our kids must be well-educated.
The cost to receive higher education is rising steeply, the ability for talented young people to take part is decreasing.
It's in our National interest to fix the discrepancy.
If what you think you know about student debt relief came from #Fox news, please read the actual plan:
But that's the kind of issue that Congress is to take up, not the other two branches.
@volkris SCOTUS is deciding now.
SCOTUS is deciding whether the president has legal authority and whether parties have access to the legal system.
It's up to Congress to decide what, if anything, to do about the cost of education.
The Supreme Court doesn't and cannot answer that question.
@volkris My understanding, (not an expert) is that the bill passed previously in Congress. SCOTUS decides the legal challenge to that bill.
Congress did pass a bill. One dispute is that the bill Congress passed didn't authorize the forgiveness of loans, and furthermore, Congress went on to later spend money based on those loans being collected.
If the president unilaterally forgives those loans then the money to fund government programs will be missing from the budget.
Yes, loan forgiveness is certainly an option that Congress should consider.
The problem is that so far Congress has gone the opposite direction, relying on the loan collection to fund government.
There's also the issue that when presidents act without going through Congress, it has the side effect of relieving Congress from having to consider the idea.
We could have had Congress enact loan forgiveness in the last couple of years, but since the president announced he was going to do it unilaterally that saved Congress from having to consider it.
@volkris
I haven't read the bill so cannot speak to the details of it.
My only point: the concept is sound, and not at all what Fox and other conservative media portray it to be.
https://slate.com/business/2022/08/student-loan-forgiveness-long-history-debt.html