[ti:US Supreme Court Considers Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Program]
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[00:00.04]The United States Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday
[00:06.28]about President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan.
[00:11.56]The court's decision will affect millions of borrowers
[00:15.16]who could see their loans reduced or forgiven.
[00:19.76]The Biden administration announced the debt forgiveness plan
[00:23.80]in August of last year.
[00:26.24]It would cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt
[00:32.16]for individuals making less than $125,000 per year
[00:38.52]or for households making less than $250,000 per year.
[00:45.52]People who received a Pell Grant, a kind of special financing
[00:50.08]given to those who show higher financial need,
[00:53.36]would get an additional $10,000 of debt forgiven.
[00:57.84]College students can be a part of the plan
[01:01.72]if their loans were sent out, or distributed,
[01:05.44]before July 1 of last year.
[01:08.80]The plan would permit 43 million borrowers
[01:13.12]to get some debt forgiveness.
[01:16.12]About 20 million people could see their debt disappear completely,
[01:21.52]the Biden administration says.
[01:25.08]The White House says 26 million people have applied for debt relief.
[01:31.96]Around 16 million people had already had their relief approved
[01:38.20]before courts suspended the program.
[01:41.88]The Congressional Budget Office has said the program
[01:45.44]will cost around $400 billion over the next thirty years.
[01:51.52]The Supreme Court is hearing two arguments against the plan.
[01:56.40]One involves six states, all led by members of the Republican Party.
[02:03.20]The other involves a legal action brought by two students.
[02:07.88]A lower court dismissed the lawsuit involving the states,
[02:12.24]which are Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina.
[02:20.40]The court said the states could not legally protest the program
[02:25.16]because they were not harmed by it.
[02:28.40]The states appealed the decision and the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled
[02:33.44]to suspend operation of the program.
[02:36.56]Then, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the case.
[02:41.44]The students' case involves Myra Brown,
[02:44.36]who is not able to receive debt relief
[02:47.28]because her loans are privately held.
[02:50.60]It also involves Alexander Taylor,
[02:53.52]who is only able to get $10,000 and not the full $20,000
[02:59.72]because he did not receive a Pell grant.
[03:02.76]The students say that the Biden administration
[03:06.24]did not go through the correct process in putting the plan into action.
[03:12.08]Texas-based U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman,
[03:15.96]an appointee of President Donald Trump,
[03:18.80]agreed with the students and ruled to block the program.
[03:23.80]Pittman ruled that the Biden administration did not
[03:27.36]have clear permission from Congress to begin the program.
[03:32.36]A federal appeals court left Pittman's ruling in place,
[03:36.28]and the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case
[03:39.52]along with the states' challenge.
[03:42.92]To cancel student loan debt, the Biden administration
[03:47.40]is using the Higher Education Relief Opportunities
[03:52.52]for Students Act, commonly known as the HEROES Act.
[03:58.12]Put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks,
[04:04.48]the law was designed to protect service members
[04:08.40]from financial loss while they fought in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[04:15.36]The law permits the secretary of education to waive
[04:20.16]or change the terms of federal student loans
[04:24.24]as necessary in connection with a national emergency.
[04:29.88]Trump, a Republican, declared the COVID-19 pandemic
[04:34.40]a national emergency in March 2020.
[04:38.08]But Biden recently announced that the national emergency
[04:42.80]will end on May 11.
[04:46.08]The Biden administration has said
[04:48.56]that the end to the national emergency
[04:51.84]does not change the legal argument for student loan debt cancellation
[04:56.68]because the pandemic affected millions of student borrowers
[05:01.72]who might have fallen behind on their loans during the emergency.
[05:07.04]The Supreme Court will likely pay careful attention to several big issues.
[05:12.64]The first one is whether the states and the two student borrowers
[05:17.04]have the right to sue over the plan in the first place,
[05:20.96]a legal idea called "standing."
[05:24.24]If the court finds that there is no standing,
[05:27.48]then the Biden administration will be clear to go ahead with the plan.
[05:32.92]To prove they have standing,
[05:34.84]the states and borrowers will have to show in part
[05:38.68]that they are financially harmed by the plan.
[05:42.72]Beyond the question of standing,
[05:44.84]the justices will also be asking whether the HEROES Act
[05:49.16]gives the Biden administration the power to put the plan into action
[05:54.12]and how it went about doing so.
[05:57.64]I'm John Russell.
[05:59.12]And I'm Ashley Thompson. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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