President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden.
  • A challenger to Biden's student-debt relief argued he could have used the Higher Education Act of 1965 to cancel student debt.
  • Biden used the HEROES Act for the relief, which relies on a national emergency.
  • Biden's team said there's no evidence the Education Secretary would pursue that alternative route.

One of the challengers of President Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness says the president can use a different law to get the relief to millions of borrowers. Biden's own team isn't so sure.