LOAN WAR LOOMS
Sep 02, 2022
3 minutes
BY BRIAN BENNETT
The Brief is reported by Eloise Barry, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, and Julia Zorthian
TO FIND THE AUTHORITY TO CANCEL BILLIONS OF dollars in student loans, President Biden turned to two words in a 2003 law: “national emergency.”
President George W. Bush had troops in Afghanistan and Iraq when Congress passed the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003. The bill gives the Secretary of Education authority to change student financial assistance programs during
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