Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then.

The cancellations have come through existing federal student loan forgiveness programs, which are limited to specific categories of borrowers, such as public-sector workers, people defrauded by for-profit colleges, and borrowers who have paid for at least 20 years.

These programs are separate from the rejected forgiveness plan, which would have canceled about $430 billion of the $1.6 trillion of outstanding federal student loan debt all at one time.

The Biden administration has been granting student loan forgiveness through these existing programs on a rolling basis since coming into office and has discharged a total of $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million people to date.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    38 months ago

    He doesn’t need the courts.

    He’s unilaterally done this multiple times.

    Please stop lying to yourself.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        18 months ago

        It’s always going to be a little surprising to me watching you all lie to defend your oppressors.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            18 months ago

            at least tries to help

            What you call ‘at least tries to help’ seems to be rather performative to me.