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Today, Explained

Student loan forgiveMESS

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Biden’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in student debt is both historic and controversial. Now some red states are suing to block it. NPR’s Cory Turner explains. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ahead on today explained, President Joe Biden has a plan to relieve student debt.

0:06.1

MPR's Cory Turner has an explanation of why it's not going very well.

0:11.6

So, in the past six weeks or so since the announcement.

0:17.2

Using the authority Congress granted the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000

0:23.7

and outstanding federal student loans.

0:26.4

We've gone from, you know, bar or jubilation.

0:30.0

Like, a wait was lifted off my shoulders, mostly for my parents, because it stresses them out like a lot.

0:35.7

And conservative excoration.

0:38.6

I think it's against the law with this president and the Democratic Party are doing.

0:43.6

To rolling out of this plan, everyone is waiting for the application to come out in the coming days or weeks.

0:51.4

And then last week, the lawsuit's it.

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