Supreme Court casts more doubt on Biden’s plan to forgive student loans
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives gave a sharply critical hearing Tuesday to President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive more than $400 billion in student loans, arguing that only Congress could approve such a large amount of federal spending.
“We are talking about half-trillion dollars and 43 million Americans,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth G. Prelogar at the outset of Tuesday’s argument.
“We take very seriously the idea of the separation of powers and that power should be divided to prevent its abuse,” he said. “Your view is that the president can act unilaterally, that there was no role for Congress to play in this. ... And there’s no role for us to play
