A Republican-led effort to block one of President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief programs in court has succeeded just days before it was set to go into effect.

Decisions by U.S. District Judges John Ross in Missouri and Daniel Crabtree in Kansas, both appointees of former President Barack Obama, on Monday sided with GOP state attorneys general in thwarting Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, according to Reuters.

The SAVE plan, which was set to go into effect on July 1, was initially announced by Biden in 2022 alongside a since-canceled larger plan that would have erased up to $20,000 in student loan debt for tens of millions of borrowers.

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    5 months ago

    Typical Dem leadership shenanigans: they’ll help their rich owner donors and their corporations with no strings attached and hardly any conditions.

    When they do anything that solely or even primarily helps the other 90%, though, they’ll means test and otherwise restrict it to death and pretend that it’s the best they can do because of [current rotating villains] having to sell it to their voters.

    Voters who have only ever been given a choice between Republicans and almost-Republicans that the DNC back with much more money than anyone to the left of Reagan.