tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
the president saying he s going to pursue student loan forgiveness through another means, through the higher education act of 1965. this is a pathway that progressives have been calling for the president to pursue should the supreme court invalidate this. and the president also laying out other steps in response to this ruling including a 12-month repayment off-ramp on-ramp rather where interests will continue to accrue on student loans but buyers will face no impact on their credit or face default if they miss payment in 12 months. and finally the department finalalizing the income based student repayment program which will lower that repayment from 10% of income to 5% of income for individuals who apply. the president s advisers say it s too early to say whether this new student loan repayment pathway will impact as many americans, up to 40 million americans that could have seen their loans forgiven under this new plan. but the president making clear even as he has previously