to you. the president will probably have stronger words today. a defeat for a program he has been talking about since campaigning. we heard from the former white house chief of staff ron klain who said it was another awful decision from the supreme court. he was here at the white house when they pushed out the program in august of last year. the president surprised folks yesterday when he added the speech on his schedule yesterday. certainly possible we could see that again today. getting ready to head for camp david for the holiday weekend. the white house likely to address what they say will be questions for people about what s next. department of education likely to put out another letter or detail for people saying how else can you get help? the program that this supreme court struck down today will not be an option for this white house. what s interesting we ve been talking about this morning for the president, this was already an issue. he wasn t always comfortable with. some cal
the use of the heroes act for this massive loan forgiveness program was absurd. it bordered on the obscene. it was clear they clear they could not get it through congress and decided to come up with a novel theory to circumvent congress. what was really unbelievable to watch is that he the democrats applauded him for that and made congress a functional none entityy and half of congress gave him a standing ovation. dana: he want to bring in elaine. you were part of this suit in terms of being against it. against biden s student loan forgiveness plan and you get this result that you had today 6-3 supreme court striking down biden s student loan plan. your reaction. thanks for having me, dana. it is a great day and a great
how about the awful decision to have it initially. the president could say we gave it a shot. i wasn t sure if it was constitutional. i want to give you relief. didn t happen. let s grow this economy, bidenomics is amazing. i don t think they ll do that and i would love your thoughts on all my ranting. sorry to rant but when i think about an awful decision they put the president in a terrible position. i said it back then and they should have stopped initially. to your point, this may be more about politics than anything else because like you said, they can turn it into a campaign commercial look what the president was pushing for and that he was rebuffed. i understand completely what you are saying. it may look like a loss on paper today in terms of the political points even though the polling isn t there they ll turn it into a positive for the next cycle as to what president biden will say today when it comes to the court i would imagine it will be more of a repeat what we heard ye
having a laptop. i can say specifically. he said it was another awful decision from this supreme court. dana: let s talk about awful decisions for a second, okay? the president himself and the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi said it was unconstitutional. the progressive left listened to the squad. what is an awful decision was putting the president in this position in the first place. now you have a situation where the president will say he will say it s not a normal court, this is awful, outrageous, they are against the students, they are against black americans, they are against all of these things. when especially on the student loan thing, he is going into a re-election and you can imagine the left will say what are you going to do now? they will demand it. which he is already in a perilous position anyway with his approval rating. student loan forgiveness does not poll well with the swing voters. when they think about awful decision.
respect. this could never have gotten through congress. never in a thousand years because of the issue you identified. many people decided not to go to college. they became plumbers, carpenters, they took out loans for equipment, and nobody is helping those people. and that s the reason that president biden had to come up a way to do it by himself. there is no license to go it alone in the u.s. constitution. not when you don t have a prior congressional authorization. there were law professors who came out in my view bizarrely and said no, the heroes act gives him ample authority. not the intent of congress. what s interesting is the witness for the majority against the biden administration in this opinion turned out to be former