Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Monday, July 3rd. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what we're covering today. Protests over police violence continue in France. Plus, keeping

dogs safe on the 4th. But first, two big rulings close out the Supreme Court's term. Why they

matter is today's one big thing. On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down the President's

plan to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans. The

Washington Post, Danielle Douglas Gabriel, has been helping us understand this issue. Danielle,

welcome, Naxios today. Thanks for having me back.

Danielle, let's just start with first. This ruling wasn't very much of a surprise to you.

Was it? No, I think many of the legal experts, as well as higher education experts, I spoke

to ahead of this, had thought that the court was going to find some way to find standing

for either of these cases and then judge it on the merits and strike it down as a result.

And that's exactly what we saw. Can you remind us before the courts hit pause on the program,

how many people had applied for relief? About 26 million people applied. And the Department

of Education was actually able to approve about, I think, 16 million applications before it had

to shut down the program. So there was a great amount of interest in this program and this plan.

And a lot of, I think sadness and anger from a lot of folks that I spoke with

after the ruling as a result of not being able to get it. So to be clear, those 16 million

people who are approved now will still have to pay back that debt. Oh, yeah. What kind of precedent

does this set for future student loan forgiveness plans? I think, you know, if anything, this experience

probably makes it a bit more toxic on Cattle Hill to find some kind of bipartisan solution

to achieve what the president wanted. I mean, certainly before this ruling came down,

we saw there was a congressional resolution to strike down the policy. And that was successful.

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