there may be some severe weather hail, wind, maybe a tornado or two. but that s going to be up to you to keep your radio on or keep your phone on, make sure alerts are on especially if you re out. there will be rain, we ll take the rain. hopefully not your barparade. the farmers will take this because they need it. the drought continues there. and coming up later this hour, we ll speak with an emergency medicine physician about how extreme heat impacts our health and what we made it to do to stay safe during hot summer days. this past week has seen several hugely consequential rulings from the u.s. supreme court. the conservative majority on the court is again prevailing on some of the country s most divisive issues. in a ruling friday, they sided with a colorado woman who didn t want to make wedding websites for gay couples because of her christian beliefs. the majority also blocked president biden s plan to forgive billions in student debt saying only congress had that authorit
on friday, president biden in the wake of the supreme court ruling announced steps he ll take to try to bring relief to borrowers. to compromise, waive, oh release loans, we re creating a temperature ranger 12 - temporary 12-month on-ramp repayment program. now, this is not the same as a student loan pause. if you miss payments, this onramp temporarily removes the threat of default or having your credit harmed. reporter: cnn analyst katherine rampel says borrowers should not expect those ideas to be a great plan b. if those were on a strong legal foundation, i think he probably would have done them already. reporter: the economy could take a hit now that millions will have to start paying down student loans again. it will mean less spending on cars, vacations, appliances. for many, burdens on longer term plans could return. when you have student loan debt that you can t cover, it often results in people delaying
start making payments averaging $210 to $314 a month. under president biden s plan, millions of eligible borrowers of federal loans could have gotten up to $20,000 of their debt wiped out. but the president s plan never actually went into effect. it was caught up in the courts. now that it won t go into effect, borrowers will be affected by another separate plan that had been in effect but which is now ending. that s the pause in required student loan repayments that had been in effect since march of 2020 to help people financially strapped by the covid-19 pandemic. there are a lot of people who would have had to start repaying their student debt no matter what. now on top of that you have people who thought that their balances had been completely wiped out and they d never have to pay another interest payment again, will actually maybe be surprised to find that this fall they, too, owe payments. reporter: for federal loan borrowers who had those payments paused during the pandemic