Betsy DeVos and former GOP lawmakers who helped construct versions of the legislation Biden is using to cancel student debt just told the Supreme Court his plan 'obviously violates' the law
of briefs in opposition delved into criticism of the education secretary's authority to enact this broad relief for millions of borrowers.
Their brief said that Biden's plan"obviously violates" provisions in the Act because a"blanket forgiveness policy" isn't limited to those who suffered direct pandemic hardship, cancelling a debt isn't the same as a waiver or modification, and"outright cancellation is hardly 'necessary' to mitigate the harms associated with the pandemic, particularly since no relevant borrower has been required to make a single payment since it began.
DeVos' and the other former education secretaries' brief also questioned the authority Biden has to carry out this relief. Represented by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies — a conservative nonprofit — the former officialsthat"such monumental debt cancellation requires clear and direct Congressional authorization."
It cited a comment from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made in 2021, in which she said that"people think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress."
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