3 GOP lawmakers just introduced a plan for Congress to overturn Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan
Republican lawmakers just introduced a new way to block President Joe Biden's student-debt relief plan.their plan to put forth a Congressional Review Act, or CRA, resolution to overturn Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers making under $125,000 a year.
"President Biden's student loan scheme does not 'forgive' debt, it just transfers the burden from those who willingly took out loans to those who never went to college, or sacrificed to pay their loans off," Cassidy said in a statement.
Still, the Education Department said in its response that the debt relief plan should not be subject to CRA because it's a"one-time, fact-bound application of existing and statutorily prescribed waiver and modification authority."the broad debt relief plan in August, it ran into challenges not only by GOP lawmakers, but conservative-backed groups who filed lawsuits to block the plan.
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