From: Alex Sammon
"New: One group that worked to sabotage Biden's student debt relief at #SCOTUS was founded by Obama alums & funded by Reid Hoffman, the Biden megadonor. It's not the first (or 2nd, or 3rd) time Hoffman money has gone to a Biden saboteur. On Build Back Better, $15 min wage, and more, Biden, the consummate moderate, has had his signature policies undone by fellow moderates. And many of them have been taking money from Mr. Moderate himself—Reid Hoffman" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/student-debt-cancellation-biden-reid-hoffman-megadonor-centrists.html
It strikes me that while that dramatic headline might get Slate some clicks, Occam's Razor would council us to consider that there was no such conspiracy; Biden simply never had that legal authority in the first place.
Legislative procedure and reading of statute isn't as exciting as these stories of sabotage, but they're important when it comes to holding politicians accountable and not letting them distract with shiny rhetoric.
