Conservatives have been flooding the Supreme Court docket urging it to block President Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness — and hundreds of GOP lawmakers just joined the cause.urging the nation's highest court to block Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers. That's just over half of the GOP composition in the House, with 222 Republicans holding a slim majority in that chamber.
Signers also included 25 Republican lawmakers on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Chair Virginia Foxx, who has been a vocal opponent of broad student-loan forgiveness. She said in a statement alongside the brief that the"administration is bypassing Congress, which is elected by the American people to protect their interests."
"Congress is the only body with the authority to enact sweeping and fundamental changes of this nature, and it is ludicrous for President Biden to assume he can simply bypass the will of the American people," Foxx said. Notably, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy did not sign onto the brief, but Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer were among the signatories.
Biden's plan to cancel student debt was put on pause late last year due to two conservative-backed lawsuits that are seeking to permanently block the relief. The Supreme Court isto both cases on February 28, and it will consider whether Biden's path to use the HEROES Act of 2003, which gives the Education Secretary the ability to waive or modify student-loan balances in connection with a national emergency, is legal.
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