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The Biden administration attempted to implement student loan forgiveness despite lacking any statutory authority to do so.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...



The problem is he tried to means-test it, which made it a program that had to go through Congress. If he had just waved his hand and done it unilaterally, it would not have been blocked.




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