On Tuesday, seven more states filed separate lawsuits against the Biden administration, citing continued attempts to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling against significant federal student loan debt relief. fox business report.
So far, 18 states have sued Biden for shifting billions of dollars in student loan debt to taxpayers.
The latest lawsuit, led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, is against Biden. Save valuable education plansalso known as SAVE, is illegal.
The government says SAVE is a new income-based repayment plan that calculates monthly repayments based on a borrower’s income. The program has “unique benefits that reduce payments for many borrowers.”
The White House has been using the plan to roll out so-called debt cancellation for about five years. 1 million Americans It has at least $45.6 billion in debt.
The Supreme Court previously rejected the Biden administration’s plan to enact unilateral debt cancellation. The federal government has since announced a number of similar programs on a smaller scale, despite the court’s decision.
The Biden administration reported that nearly 8 million borrowers are enrolled in the president’s SAVE plan, and 4.5 million currently have “$0 monthly payments.”
AG Bailey told FOX Business, “With his pen, Joe Biden is putting working Missourians on the hook for $5 trillion in debt. The U.S. Constitution says the president can do nothing without the express permission of Congress. It makes clear that it does not have the authority to unilaterally “cancel” the student loan debt of millions of Americans. ”
“The president cannot block the Constitution if it suits his political purposes,” he continued. “I am suing to stop his shameful attempt to buy the 2024 election in direct violation of the law. As long as I am Attorney General, the Constitution will continue to have some meaning. Let’s go.”
“Last summer, we defeated his illegal student loan scheme in court, so he immediately came up with a Plan B. Now that we’re contesting it, he panics. We are deploying Plan C. We will continue to closely monitor him and take action at any time. He has exceeded his authority,” Bailey told FOX Business.
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma also joined Missouri in the latest lawsuit.
The complaint alleges that the SAVE plan is a “long and messy process in which the president relies on the innocuous language of decades-old statutes to impose sweeping and costly policy changes on the American people without their consent.” He claimed that it showed a pattern.
“President Biden has already lost once on this issue and refuses to follow the law. The Supreme Court could not have made a clearer ruling,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin told the news outlet. President Biden cannot unilaterally cancel student loans and force taxpayers to pay billions of dollars in costs.”
Late last month, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and 10 other states filed a similar lawsuit against the Biden administration, challenging the administration’s efforts to wipe out federal student loan debt. blaze news Previously reported.
“Not since the Civil War has a president said before the Supreme Court, ‘Yes, you blocked me, but I’m still going to do it,'” Kobach told Fox News Digital. “Biden is trying to twist federal law again, but his new plan is just as illegal as the old one.”
In response to the initial lawsuit, the Department of Education told the press, “The Department does not comment on pending litigation. However, in 1993, Congress gave the U.S. Department of Education the authority to define the terms of income-based repayment plans. The SAVE plan marks the fourth time the department has used that authority.
“The Biden-Harris administration will not stop fighting to provide assistance and relief to borrowers across the country, no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to block it,” the department added.
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