Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers

Biden drug his feet as long as possible on doing anything then only made on single token the gesture because he knew the court would instantly undo it and then he could pretend he tried (a court he never supported reforming in any meaningful way, not coincidentally).

If he actually gave a shit he could have ordered the debt discharged before courts had any opportunity to involve themselves, or could have at least tried multiple different orders (like how Trump was willing to do with his travel bans), but the fact is Biden never actually wanted to deal with student debt because he worked most of his career to build this system and thinks it's a good way to keep young people from getting too uppity.

Biden does weakest method to do debt relief, then ignores it once courts block it

see he wanted to! - - dems not understanding why people don't want more right wing dems in the party

I don't disagree that Biden certain was problematic when in congress on student loans, but it's worth noting that the action he had planned to do was well beyond just one-time student loan forgiveness

He's lowered the bar for discharging student loans via bankruptcy via executive action. It shouldn't have been nearly impossible before, but it's now moved into the realm of at least sometimes possible now

In the fall of 2022, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice jointly released updated bankruptcy guidelines aimed at making the process for student loan borrowers less arduous

Previously, it was difficult, if not impossible, for most people to part with their education debt in a normal bankruptcy proceeding.

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While the government used to fight discharge aggressively in almost every case, there is now a policy to agree when the borrower can show financial need and a history of good faith efforts to pay the loans said Latife Neu, a bankruptcy lawyer in Seattle.

“I’ve helped several people take advantage of the expanded ability to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy,” Neu added.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/biden-makes-it-easier-to-forgive-student-debt-in-bankruptcy.html

He also tried to cap interest rates, and reduce the monthly payment requirements, increase federal student aid, etc.

Cutting monthly payments in half for undergraduate loans. The Department of Education is proposing a new income-driven repayment plan that protects more low-income borrowers from making any payments and caps monthly payments for undergraduate loans at 5% of a borrower’s discretionary income—half of the rate that borrowers must pay now under most existing plans. This means that the average annual student loan payment will be lowered by more than $1,000 for both current and future borrowers.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/

That and all the government cuts to public universities funding.

Tuition is never going to stop rising while we kept cutting how much money they get from the state vs need to get from students