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The Biden administration stopped taking applications for student loan forgiveness Friday after a federal judge in Texas struck down the president’s $400 billion debt relief giveaway.
“Courts have issued orders blocking our student debt relief program,” a note on the federally run loan forgiveness application page studentaid.gov declared.
“As a result, at this time, we are not accepting applications. We are seeking to overturn those orders.”
The halt came after US District Judge Mark Pittman rejected Biden’s executive action to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for tens of millions of Americans.
Pittman ruled that the White House did not have “clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.”
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in his order.
