“This brings the total debt cancellation my administration has approved to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans through various actions,” Biden said in a statement.

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    I still maintain the executive branch can order the executive branch to consider the debt forgiven. They just can’t or won’t with SCOTUS being what it is.

    Dude they literally have and are trying again. They can’t force SCOTUS to uphold it. Simple as that. To call it inaction is ridiculous. This post is about their third attempt I believe.

    Like are you actually following what has happened? Are you up to date on this issue?

    If the executive branch clearly had the authority to do it then it wouldn’t have gone to the courts in the first place. You just don’t understand this subject, which isn’t a crime, but to then pass it off as if the administration hasn’t actually attempted it is, again, ridiculous.

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      I have been following the court cases. The arguments only had standing in some extremely political courts.

      My point is the Biden administration is not taking an aggressive enough approach to it. So the inaction I reference is not total inertia, just insufficient.

      It is the third attempt, yes, and I guess one attempt per year is good enough for enough people.

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        Well plenty of people saved a ton of money during the interest freeze, I know one of my friends actually was able to squirrel away that money and pay off their total loan as a result. So that was not nothing.

        I have seen the “I want a more aggressive approach” comment so many times in these discussions but I’ve never seen a solution. So if you are truly familiar with what is going on, what do you propose that hasn’t already been done?