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Supreme Court rules against Biden's student debt plan

NPR

Published June 30, 2023 at 8:11 AM EDT

Student debt relief activist rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court stuck down the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness program in Biden v. Nebraska. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

By a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s plan to cancel $400 billion in student loan debt.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and fellow at Yale Law School, about the Supreme Court’s ruling on student loans.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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