Student loans: Biden vetoes bill to claw back student loan relief
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Student loans: Biden vetoes bill to claw back student loan relief
to get the bill to President
President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have repealed months of student loan payment forbearance and banned his up to $20,000 in debt forgiveness — regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the program this month.
The resolution, called House Joint Resolution 45, passed the House in May and the Senate last week, with support from Sen. Kyrsten Simena (I-Ariz.) and two Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), in the higher chamber.
If Biden had not vetoed the measure, borrower advocates worried that 40 million student loan borrowers could have faced backpay for those paused payments and had new interest charges added to their debt. They also raised concerns that debt cancellation borrowers recently received would be reversed.
"It is a shame for working families across the country that lawmakers continue to pursue this unprecedented attempt to deny critical relief to millions of their own constituents," President Biden said after vetoing the resolution. "I remain committed to continuing to make college affordable and providing this critical relief to borrowers as they work to recover from a once-in-a-century pandemic."
What now?
The measure is likely dead now.
“It did not pass the House and Senate with enough votes to override a presidential veto, so borrowers do not need to worry about it,” Mark Kantrowitz, author and student loans expert, told Yahoo Finance. “This was motivated by political posturing, as the people behind it knew that it would not survive a veto.”
Still, the Senate’s passage shocked borrower advocates after the White House agreed to not extend forbearance and that paused student payments would restart in September in a debt ceiling deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Borrower advocates hoped the ability to extend the forbearance pause was a plan B if the Supreme Court rules against student loan cancellation. However, the debt ceiling agreement takes that option off the table.
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