A new lawsuit filed by a coalition of Republican-led states has alleged that the Biden administration has illegally directed student loan servicers to begin canceling student loans. The suit, filed Tuesday, claims that Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is attempting to enforce new changes to the federal student loan program that have yet to be finalized. If true, these actions would constitute a brazen violation of federal law—and show just how desperate the Biden administration is to enact mass student loan forgiveness, despite legal constraints.
“This is the third time the Secretary has unlawfully tried to mass cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in loans,” the complaint reads. “Courts stopped him the first two times, when he tried to do so openly. So now he is trying to do so through cloak and dagger.”
Joe Biden has spent much of his presidency pushing mass student loan forgiveness. In 2022, he announced an…
