{"id":33276,"date":"2023-06-30T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=33276"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:48:31","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/06\/30\/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court strikes down Biden&#8217;s student loan forgiveness plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a 6-3 ruling that will affect tens of millions of Americans, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/22-506_nmip.pdf\">Supreme Court<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday struck down President Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;student loan forgiveness&nbsp;plan, which would have provided up to $20,000 in&nbsp;debt relief&nbsp;to Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 to non-Pell Grant recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court divided its decisions into two based on the two challenges against the&nbsp;student loan forgiveness&nbsp;plan. In the case, Department of Education v. Brown, the court sided with the Department of Education, stating that the plaintiffs don&#8217;t have standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SC-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SC-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SC.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court ruled 6-3 in favor of Missouri against Biden&#8217;s student debt relief plan, which they say was an &#8220;unlawful&#8221; use of the president&#8217;s power as the plan had not been explicitly approved by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling is separate from a three-year pause on student loan payments that was already scheduled to end on June 30 after Biden agreed not to extend the pause in a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the&nbsp;debt ceiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 6-3 ruling that will affect tens of millions of Americans, the&nbsp;Supreme Court&nbsp;on Friday struck down President Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;student loan forgiveness&nbsp;plan, which would have provided up to $20,000 in&nbsp;debt&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[5345],"class_list":["post-33276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}