The Daily Populous Tuesday July 18th, 2023 morning edition
Authored by thehill.com and submitted by vbbryce

The Supreme Court and Republicans are on the top of the list for college students and recent graduates to blame for the lack of student debt relief after the high court’s recent ruling striking down President Biden’s forgiveness plan, according to a new poll from Generation Lab.

The survey released Tuesday showed 47 percent of college students and recent graduates across the country blame the Supreme Court for unforgiven student loan debt, while Republicans came in second place at 38, 10 percent blamed the president and only 4 percent blamed Democrats.

The Supreme Court at the end of June ruled against Biden’s up to $20,000 in student debt relief, a decision that was celebrated by Republicans and denounced by Democrats.

The challengers in the case that ultimately led to the demise of the president’s plan were six Republican-led state attorneys general.

The poll found 77 percent of young people knew about the court’s recent decision, while 23 percent did not.

Sixty-one percent of those surveyed did not agree with the Supreme Court’s ruling, and only 17 percent did. Twenty-one percent were not sure if they agreed or disagreed with the court’s decision.

The results of the survey were first reported by Axios.

The student debt relief would have helped more than 40 million borrowers with student debt, costing around $400 billion.

Biden has been sure to keep all eyes on Republicans after the plan was shot down by the court.

“I didn’t give any false hope,” he previously said when questioned if he led borrowers astray in thinking they would get relief. “The Republicans snatched away the hope that they were given.”

Immediately after the decision, Biden introduced a new path to student debt relief, but it will take months to go through the negotiated rulemaking process. The administration also recently forgave student debt for more than 800,000 borrowers.

Republicans have continued to be vocal against Biden’s attempts at student loan forgiveness, arguing it is unfair to those who have paid off their debts or did not go to college.

“The Biden administration’s blatantly political attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court is shameful. The Biden administration is trampling the rule of law, hurting borrowers, and abusing taxpayers to chase headlines,” Chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said after the loan forgiveness for 800,000 borrowers.

The Generation Lab poll was conducted between July 12 and July 17, surveying 783 college students and recent graduates across the country. The unweighted margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

SKDI_0224 on July 17th, 2023 at 22:30 UTC »

I’m 36. My parents went to a private college and could go by working through school with no debt. I had Pell grants, work study, and scholarships, and still ended up with debt. From a public university.

My entire life has been lived under the policies of austerity. Of trickle down. Of cuts to education and the grifting off the public coffers. And every time we try to make anything better a Republican will come out and tell us that it’s our fault when THEY cut the budgets for education.

Darth_Vrandon on July 17th, 2023 at 22:02 UTC »

The republicans hoped that young people would blame Biden and so they’d go unscathed, but it seems that most of them aren’t stupid enough to think that and know that the GOP are to blame.

The_Navy_Sox on July 17th, 2023 at 21:38 UTC »

I'm shocked people blame the group of people who sued to stop the debt forgiveness, and the court that ruled in favor of blocking debt forgiveness. Instead of blaming the group of people who tried to forgive student debt. Shocked I tell ya.