the court as not a normal court. he didn t say that today. he just disagreed strongly with it. this gets to be a common response and refrain from the white house these days on this obviously conservative court s series of decisions. three in the past week went against him. what do you think of how he reacts this is maybe more i want your view as a lawyer knowing the system as you do. we do have three branches of government. we have to accept what each does. sometimes not happily. but to say as he did yesterday, it s not a normal court. what do you think? yeah, i got this new book out this week called the politically incorrect guide to the supreme court. this is a great pitch for it. we trace the history of attacks on the supreme court. the last two years, you have seen these unprecedented assaults on the institutional independence of the supreme court by progressives who are
from the worst pandemic in a century. i strongly disagree with the court s decision. i want to assure our students and borrowers and family as cross america our fight is not over. we re taking action. the president, the vice president and i have put borrowers first from day one. we refuse to go back to the way things were before the pandemic when a middle borrowers defaulted each year and faced devastating financial consequences. so let me tell you about the actions we re taking today. number 1, we re going to open up an alternative path to debt relief for as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. but we acknowledge the court s decision. we begin the negotiated rule-making process with compromised authority today. more information on the new regulations will come out shortly. number 2, today, we are rolling out the most affordable income driven repayment plan ever. this new plan is called saving
and reach your dreams. it s good for the economy. it s good for the country. it s good for you. thank you very much for listening. we ll get this done god willing. thank you. mr. president, why did you give millions of borrowers false hope? you doubted your own authority here in the past. i didn t give any false hope. the question was whether or not i would do even more than what was requested. what i did i thought was appropriate and was able to be done and would get done. i didn t give borrowers false hope. the republicans snatched away the hope that they were given. it s real. real hope. thank you. will you cancel student debt? did you overstep your authority? the court misinterpreted the constitution. [question inaudible]
president had gone a step too far and a legal level too far. speaking for the conservative majority, john roberts said that the secretary asserts that the hero s act grants him the authority to cancel this $430 billion in student loan debt. we hold, he says today, that the act allows the secretary to waive or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions under the education act, not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. isn t what the president is thinking here rewriting a statute within a program that doesn t call for it? neil, you re getting good. that is the exact phrase that will come back when they try this again. the court is saying, we see
is color blind. today the truth is congress has the power of the purse. the president doesn t have any constitutional power to spend money unless congress authorizes it. notice president biden s comments just now, he never addressed the constitutional issue. he made a pitch as if he was asking congress to pass his debt program. he never mentioned that the court doesn t take a position on whether a debt payment program is good or bad. all they re there to say is it s congress job to decide whether to spend $400 billion in students debt relief. in the biden administration just tries it again, the court will say again, we see no cleared law that gives the president that kind of spending authority. you can t stretch and twist the existing laws to try to get there. neil: john roberts was joined by five justices that the