Education Sec. Miguel Cardona lauded the Biden’s administration’s defense of its student-debt relief after arguments at the Supreme Court concluded.
A consequential day for millions of student-loan borrowers has wrapped up at the nation’s highest court, and President Joe Biden’s administration is feeling good about it.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the two conservative-backed lawsuits that blocked Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers. While the liberal justices drilled the lawyers representing the two cases on the standing they have to bring the lawsuit, the conservative justices appeared skeptical of Biden’s authority to cancel student debt broadly for millions of Americans without Congressional approval.
Still, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona did not appear to be deterred by the harsh line of questioning, saying Biden’s team „mounted a powerful defense before the U.S. Supreme Court on our plan to provide targeted, one-time student debt relief to more than 40 million working- and middle-class Americans as they recover from the pandemic.
