out student loan debt of up to $20,000 for individual borrowers if they have grants. the justice department is arguing that the heroes act of 2003 authorizes this broad student debt forgiveness plan. now the justice department says the legislation gives the education department the power to wave student debt in response to a national emergency. critics say that that is a stretch. i think there are some conservative justices that seem skeptical here. the idea seemed pretty straightforward though to justice elena kagan, take a listen to this. congress cannot have made this much more clear. i mean congress did not say exactly the circumstances in which it wanted the secretary to use the authority. of course, not this is a bill about like what happens when you have an emergency. so what congress that is what happens when you have an emergency is the secretary has the power to take care of emergencies.
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first week in charge. new reporting suggests this coming week will be just as not. the federal government will reach its borrowing cap known as the debt ceiling as early as this thursday, forcing the treasury department to take extraordinary measures. financial applications of the next few months, setting the stage for a like legislative showdown in which republicans in exchange for a debt ceiling high according to our already bracing for a stalemate for the treasury, on which programs to continue funding if congress cannot agree to raise the debt, later this year, citing sources which said to prioritize payment to social security, medicare, veterans benefits and military funding, not including those priorities?
become speaker of the house did not just occur at the federal level. they also occurred at the state level in pennsylvania in 2022. democrats won control of the pennsylvania state house in the midterm elections for the first time in 12 years. it was an important repudiation of the election denier candidates running at the state and federal level in pennsylvania, who championed lies about the 2020 election or actually worked to overturn the election results for. pennsylvania democrats the margin was even narrower than the one in congress just one single vote it should ve been enough to elect joanna clinton to become the state s first black female speaker but three vacancies on the democratic side left them short of the votes they needed for speaker. so democrats took the high road. the leader, to animal clinton, stood up and back the republican nomination of the moderate democrat, mark rossi,