sm mark rulings. here is chief legal correspondent and fox news sunday anchor. hands up. reporter: another day of decisions split, 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court. an opinion by chief justice john robert, the majority struck down the biden administration plan to wipe out $430 billion in student loan debt. we hope the act allows the education secretary to waive or mo modify existing provisions. not to rewrite the statute from the ground up. they argue the secretary did have the power. the statute gives the secretary broad thought to relieve it on borrowers able to repay student loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shou
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
student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. john: you don t have todd s number on speed dial, john? i ll pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. john: biden facing backlash with a growing number of democrats distancing themselves from the controversial hands outs. i think a targeted an i approach right now, people making 30, $40,000, didn t go to college, they need help as well. it does not help people who have already paid off their college debt. a band aid step, a point in time step. not yet contending with the root issue, which is the affordability crisis of higher education in our country. sandra: or bipartisan political panel is on set and read
administration came out and tried to equate student loan forgiveness to ppp loan forgiveness. they seem to be forgetting ppp happened because the business closed business to covid. the government didn t force anyone to get a gender studies degree. ppp loan forgiveness was decided by congress and not by the executive branch. they are comparing apples to very expensive oranges. thank you so much. have a great weekend. thank you. there is plenty of blame to go around according to a state department review of the united states chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan in august of 2021. christina coleman has the story tonight. good evening. good evening, mike. this blistering state department report blames senior biden administration officials for changing guidance during this chaotic withdrawal and failing to decide which afghan should be allowed to evacuate during the mayhem that added to the challenges the state department
ppp loan forgiveness program in congress but opposed this student debt relief program, and that ultimately is going to be the way forward. beyond this student loan repayment pathway that the president is going to pursue, he made clear that s going to take a long time. so in the meantime this is going to become a political battle and something the president is going to use as a rallying cry in particular to try and motivate young voters ahead of the 2024 election. jeremy, standby. joan, get back to this other case, the case out of colorado also a 6-3 decision. what was the majority s rationale for what was clearly a roll back for lgbtq rights? the majority rule for a website designer who does not want to serve same-sex couples and cast the entire dispute as a pure free speech one but arose against the backdrop of colorado s public accommodations law that says that businesses cannot discriminate against someone on the basis of sexual orientation. but neil gorsuch writing for the