States sue to block student loan forgiveness

 Conservative Brief:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer went extreme in a screed against Republicans who oppose President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.
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After Schumer’s speech, Arizona GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit against the president’s student loan forgiveness program. It came after other states, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina, filed their own lawsuits, The Daily Wire reported.

“The president’s action is contrary to several recent United States Supreme Court decisions striking down federal agencies’ assertion of power never granted to them by Congress,” the attorney general said. “Despite being told by members of congress he cannot pursue such an action, Biden is relying on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act (HEROES Act) and the COVID-19 pandemic. The HEROES Act was a response to the September 11th attacks to relieve active-duty personnel from financial hardship while defending our nation.”

“The act also includes individuals who reside in disaster areas affected by a national emergency. The president attempts to stretch the HEROES Act to assert authority over all borrowers in the country, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a national emergency and the entire United States as a disaster area,” he said.

Arkansas Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is heading the lawsuits by the other states, had a similar argument.

“It’s patently unfair to saddle hard-working Americans with the loan debt of those who chose to go to college,” she said. “The Department of Education is required, under the law, to collect the balance due on loans. And President Biden does not have the authority to override that.”
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The Dems are upset that they have been called on their attempt to ignore the law.  I am sure AOC was hoping to have her student loans forgiven even though she has a job in Congress.