And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles in for Chuck Todd. And as you just heard,

President Biden responding to the Supreme Court rulings after the court issued a pair of six

three rulings on this final day of its term. The first, in support of a private business that

refused to service same-sex couples. The second, striking down the Biden administration's massive

$400 billion student loan forgiveness

program.

Speaking at the White House just a few minutes ago, the president announced new actions on student

debt after that loss today.

And joining me now to talk more about today's rulings is my NBC news colleague, Julia Ainsley,

and in a moment, we'll be joined at the White House by NBC's Kelly O'Donnell.

So, Julia, let's start with you.

Obviously, this ruling was not something that the White House had intended.

It did seem, though, that the court just felt that in order to do something this big, a $400 billion

forgiveness of student loans, the president just can't do this on his own,

at least not under the law that they cited to make it legitimate. Is that your read of it?

Yeah, that's right, Ryan. And given the current makeup of the court, this was the most anticipated

decision. This is what we expected, although they did hand down the sharpest rebuke of the plan

that they could have. It could have been that they said, go back to the drawing board, find a

different path, reach out for comment, follow the Administrative Procedures Act, but instead they

said no, the statute that the Biden administration is looking to hear the Heroes Act, which was

started in 2003 to allow people after 9-11 to have some forgiveness and was continued during COVID.

They said that doesn't apply. What that allows you to do is to modify or temporarily reduce student loans.

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