Biden announces $4.7 billion in new student loan forgiveness ahead of election – EVOL

The Biden administration is plugging its student loan plans one more time ahead of Election Day, announcing another $4.7 billion of loans that will not have to be repaid by roughly 60,000 people.

“For too long, the government failed to live up to its commitments, and only 7,000 people had ever received forgiveness under Public Service Loan Forgiveness before Vice President Kamala Harris and I took office,” President Joe Biden said in a prepared statement. “Now over 1 million public service workers have gotten the relief they are entitled to under the law.”

Biden has made several rounds of student loan forgiveness announcements that he’s described as “fixes” to existing programs. This latest one is for people enrolled in the PSLF program, with the administration saying it will help teachers, nurses, and firefighters.

Student loans have been a major point of focus for Biden during his time in the White House. He has announced plans and programs that would cost more than $1 trillion combined, only to see much of it clawed back by courts ruling he can’t make such moves without Congress.

Most notably, the Supreme Court in June 2023 ruled against a program that would have transferred

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