Missouri Solicitor General defends Biden Administration loan forgiveness lawsuits

The Biden Administration is being sued over its efforts to forgive student loan debt. 

This latest attempt is through the SAVE Plan, which aims to cut monthly payments and accelerate the path to having loans forgiven. 

It’s being challenged by a group of conservative states led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. 

Solicitor General Josh Devine says that Biden is attempting to cancel student loans in “direct defiance” of last year’s Supreme Court ruling…

Devine told Newstalk KZRG” “I mean, on the very same day last year that the Supreme Court said to the Biden Administration you can’t do this, literally minutes later, they said, ‘well we’re going to try it again. We’re going to try it again under a different statute that has even less plausible authority.”

This week, the High Court rejected Biden’s request to allow his forgiveness plan to remain in effect while it’s being challenged at the appeals court level.