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Hey everybody, it's Maryl Sagarra.

The Supreme Court has decided to overturn the Biden administration's student debt relief

plan, which would have erased at least $10,000 and sometimes up to $20,000 in federal student

loan debt for tens of millions of people.

So if you have federal student loans, you might be wondering what the hell to do now.

NPR education correspondent Corey Turner has been following this topic closely for years.

And on this episode of LifeKit, he shares some context and advice.

Hey Corey.

Hey Maryl.

All right, so we are recording this on Friday, the day that the Supreme Court decision on student

loans came out.

Can you just explain what happened?

Yeah.

So basically this case, it's really two cases, all boiled down to a sort of fundamental

political argument about whether the executive branch, the president and his education secretary

by extension, have the power to essentially erase more than $400 billion in federal student

loans.

And it's a debate because constitutionally, it's always been Congress that has the power

of the purse.

That plan came directly from the president and his ed secretary and they argued that the

authority they had to justify it came from this old law was passed in the wake of the

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