Group Asks Supreme Court To Halt Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
A Wisconsin taxpayers association
asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block the White House’s student loan forgiveness program before funds start rolling out to borrowers later this month, one of several legal challenges that threatens President Joe Biden’s student debt proposal—though a lower court has already rejected the group’s claims.
The Brown County Taxpayers Association asked the Supreme Court to immediately block Biden’s student loan program while the group’s litigation against it proceeds, arguing the Biden Administration exceeded its authority and violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it imposed the loan forgiveness policy.
The
request argues the program will result in a “gargantuan increase in the national debt” that will result in taxpayers “being asked to assume perhaps over one trillion dollars in debt,” and that such large spending measures should only be taken by Congress and not the executive branch.
A lower district court has already
denied the request to block the program, ruling that the taxpayers did not have standing to bring it because if taxpayers could simply challenge any move by the federal government that they opposed, “the federal courts would cease to function as courts of law and would be cast in the role of general complaint bureaus.”
The taxpayers argued to the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to sue the Biden Administration and have standing because they are harmed by the program and it “tramples the constitutional spending power.”
“It simply cannot be the law that a President can hand out a trillion dollars with impunity,” the taxpayers argued to the Supreme Court.
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