NEW YORK — U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met with about half a dozen teachers and borrowers in New York City on Monday to mark the announcement of a newly proposed student debt relief plan that could benefit more than 30 million people.
This is the first direct attempt at bringing back a revised version of President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program, which the Supreme Court struck down last year, crushing the hopes of more than 40 million eligible borrowers who could have had up to $20,000 in debt cancelled.
“We want to provide as much debt relief to as many people as possible as quickly as possible,” Cardona told NBC News in a sit-down interview Monday at the headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers union following his meeting with teachers.
“So, we’re…
