Two federal judges ruled against Joe Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness vote-buying scheme after a challenge by the Attorneys General from several GOP-led states.
In one case Monday, U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree in Wichita, Kansas, blocked parts of Biden’s scheme. Then, in a second case, U.S. District Judge John Ross in St. Louis, Missouri, made a similar move by issuing a preliminary injunction against Biden’s plan. This put a halt to the scheme that was set to go into effect on July 1.
Biden had summarily ruled that $160 billion in loans for another 4.6 million borrowers would be forgiven by tying monthly loan payments to the income and size of the borrower’s family. This new scheme was hatched after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed Biden’s previous outright forgiveness announcement to be unconstitutional.
Now his latest attempt is in jeopardy, too.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach hailed the ruling.
“Kansas’s victory today is a victory for the entire country,” Kobach wrote. “As the court correctly held, whether to forgive billions of dollars of student debt is a major question that only Congress can answer. Biden’s administration is attempting to usurp Congress’s authority. This is not only unconstitutional, it’s unfair. Blue collar Kansas workers who didn’t go to college shouldn’t have to pay off the student loans of New Yorkers with gender studies degrees.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey also praised the ruling in a post on X.
“BREAKING: The Court has granted our motion to BLOCK Joe Biden’s illegal student loan plan,” he wrote. “Congress never gave Biden the authority to saddle working Americans with half-a-trillion dollars in other people’s debt.”
“A huge win for the Constitution,” he said.
🚨BREAKING: The Court has granted our motion to BLOCK Joe Biden’s illegal student loan plan.
Congress never gave Biden the authority to saddle working Americans with half-a-trillion dollars in other people's debt.
A huge win for the Constitution.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) June 24, 2024
Let’s talk facts, here, shall we?
This “forgiveness” absolutely does not mean that the loans just disappear into the ether. What it means is that Joe Biden is telling the creditors that the U.S. government will pay the balance.
That means that Joe Biden is adding billions to the federal debt by his fiat.
So, sure, an individual might feel suddenly “debt free.” But that same individual just burdened the next generations with that debt.
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