Why Should I Pay for My Tuition and for Your Tuition?

We have a President who does not obey rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than a year ago in June 2023, the Supreme Court struck down Joe Biden’s previous initiative to cancel student loans. Now Biden is trying it again.

On Monday, Biden announced that he had a plan to cancel at least $5,000 for over 10 million Americans with student loans. Seven Republican attorneys general said “not so fast” by filing a lawsuit today against the new student loan forgiveness plan. Kate Anderson wrote about the situation in an article published in The Daily Signal. 

… Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri filed a lawsuit alongside Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma, arguing that the president’s plan was unconstitutional and “illegal.”

“With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt. The United States Constitution makes clear that the President lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress,” Bailey said in a press release.

“The President does not get to thwart the Constitution when it suits is political agenda. I’m filing suit to halt his brazen attempt to curry favor with some citizens by forcing others to shoulder their debts. The Constitution will continue to mean something as long as I’m Attorney General.”

The president’s new plan focuses on low-and-middle income Americans and those who attended a “low-financial-value” institution, who will now be able to enroll in an “income-driven repayment plan.” The plan has been criticized for ignoring the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision that struck down the president’s unilateral forgiveness of student debt through the Department of Education’s emergency authority.

The lawsuit, citing the Supreme Court ruling, argues that Biden and his administration are attempting “to sidestep the Constitution” and “impose drastic, costly policy changes on the American people without their consent.”

“Yet again, the President is unilaterally trying to impose an extraordinarily expensive and controversial policy that he could not get through Congress,” the lawsuit reads.

The president announced in March that he was canceling almost $6 billion in student loan debt for teachers, nurses and firefighters, among others through Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The administration has canceled student debt for roughly four million Americans to the tune of $146 billion through executive actions.

Bidon’s plan to cancel student loans for select groups of students is unfair to the millions of other students who paid their own college expenses. It is unfair to the millions of people who did not go to college but will be forced to pay the student loans for those who did go to college. It is unfair for the students who have their loans cancelled because they will never learn the lesson: If you take out a loan, YOU are responsible to repay the money.