Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the Department of Education on Tuesday, challenging the White House’s newest plan for student loan cancelation.
Bailey, a Republican, was joined by the attorneys general of six other states in the lawsuit, which seeks to block a Biden plan to cancel the student debt of millions of borrowers by placing the responsibility of the debt into the hands of taxpayers.
“With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt,” Bailey said in a statement. “The United States Constitution makes clear that the President lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress. The President does not get to thwart the Constitution when it
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