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☆ White House starts scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes and student debt
  + stars: | 2024-12-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +9 min
Even as the Biden administration moves to pull back the rules, it pushed ahead with cancellation through other avenues on Friday. “This isn’t the way I wanted it to end,” said Melissa Byrne, an activist who has pushed for student debt cancellation. “Unfortunately, this is the most prudent action to take right now.”She blamed Republicans for putting the Biden administration in this position. The withdrawals are beginning as Washington braces for a potential government shutdown that could further complicate efforts by the Biden administration to tie up loose ends. Advocates for transgender athletes said it didn’t go far enough in protecting transgender students from school policies that could unfairly exclude them.
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☆ House Republicans want to ban student-loan forgiveness and immediately end the payment pause in their new debt ceiling bill
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
House Republicans unveiled their bill to raise the debt ceiling on Wednesday. On Wednesday, House Republicans unveiled a bill to raise the debt ceiling through March 2024, and alongside increasing the limit, they have 320 pages worth of proposed spending cuts alongside it. Since Biden took office, many GOP lawmakers have slammed the president's debt relief plans, saying they are an overreach of authority and costly to taxpayers. In the meantime, Democratic lawmakers and advocates have been urging Congress to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a financially catastrophic default. "Everyone in the House and Senate must reject the Speakers and GOP efforts to repeal student loan relief, changes to PSLF + IDR, and preventing future relief," she said.
☆ Over 500 students are at the Supreme Court to plug Biden's student-loan forgiveness because the 'economic mobility of over 40 million Americans is dependent on the survival of this program'
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Over 500 students are flooding the Supreme Court on Tuesday to support student-debt relief. The Supreme Court will hear arguments and likely make a final decision on the relief in May or June. Today, over 500 students have gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court to fight back against any attempt to restrict such freedom. "Our government must relieve borrowers of the crushing weight of student debt which will keep an entire generation from reaching their full potential," he continued. All eyes now turn to the conservative-majority Supreme Court, which will likely make a final ruling on Biden's debt relief in May or June.
☆ Student-loan borrowers are gearing up to camp overnight outside the Supreme Court ahead of arguments on Biden's debt relief to 'make sure that the justices look into the eyes of borrowers'
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Advocates are planning to camp out at the Supreme Court the night before the student debt arguments. The Supreme Court will be taking on the two lawsuits that blocked Biden's debt relief on February 28. "We're going to move forward and stay in this fight"The Supreme Court will be taking on two lawsuits that blocked Biden's debt relief. One was filed by two student-loan borrowers who sued because they did not qualify for the full $20,000 amount of debt relief. "It's simple: our Administration is confident that our student debt relief program is fully legal," Biden wrote on Twitter.
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