Biden’s Promise To Cancel Student Debt Has Faced Legal Hurdles — And More Could Likely Be On The Way

President Joe Biden has faced several legal challenges since trying to fulfill his campaign promise to cancel student loans, and legal and education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that more could be on the way.

The Supreme Court struck down Biden’s previous student debt relief plan in June 2023, but the president has since attempted to introduce new ways to wipe out loans through the Saving on Valuable Education (SAVE) plan and a new program announced on April 8. Two lawsuits from Republican attorneys general were filed against the SAVE plan in March and April, and experts told the DCNF that the plans are “dubiously legal” and expand “statutes well beyond the original meaning.”

“We’re living under an administrative dictatorship, essentially, where unelected bureaucrats are expanding statutes well beyond the original meaning to regulate Americans and corporations in ways Congress would never have assented to, as we have unelected bureaucrats using big statutes to impose regulations that the far left will never get through Congress,” Dr. Jonathan Pidluzny, director of the America First Policy Institute’s Higher Education Reform Initiative, told the DCNF.