The Dept of Education did a report on Biden's ability to cancel student debt so Biden just redacted the entire thing, how is this real lmao

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  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They left a bit of the memo unredacted:

    which the benefits provided to borrowers with Department-held loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act"), Pub. L. 116-136, are effective. The use of the HEROES Act to effectuate those waivers and modifications in 2020 is consistent with the Department's past practice. The HEROES Act was enacted by Congress in 2003, and the Department issued its first Notice of waivers and modifications pursuant to the HEROES Act that same year. 68 Fed. Reg. 69,312 (Dec. 12, 2003). In the more than 17 intervening years, the Department has continued to use this authority without legal challenge.

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    For context, this isn't the Covid HEROES act from last year, but the one from 2003 that specifically allows the department to waive debt at will " in times of war or military operation or national emergency". The crux of their idea laid out in the redacted document was to use this act to just wipe out everyone's debt because of that "national emergency" part of the language.