{"id":42266,"date":"2023-01-15T20:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/judge-vacates-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-npr\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T20:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:37:40","slug":"judge-vacates-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandon.ddtest.info\/multisite-test\/judge-vacates-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge vacates Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University last month. A judge in Texas blocked Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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President Biden’s plan to erase federal student loan debts for tens of millions of borrowers hit a legal wall Thursday, when a U.S. District Court judge in Texas called it unlawful and vacated the debt relief program. <\/p>\n

The federal government quickly appealed the decision, which came just weeks before student loan payments are set to resume in January. The program was already on hold while a federal appeals court in St. Louis considers a separate lawsuit by six states challenging it.<\/p>\n

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In Thursday’s ruling, Judge Mark T. Pittman, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote that the program was a “complete usurpation” of congressional authority by the executive branch. <\/p>\n

Pittman rejected the Biden administration’s arguments that, in a law known as the HEROES Act, Congress had already given the president the power to erase student loan debts in a time of national emergency and that the COVID-19 pandemic is just such an emergency.<\/p>\n