Education Sec. Miguel Cardona
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
  • Education Secretary Miguel Cardona confirmed his committement to resume student-loan payments this year.
  • "The emergency period is over," he said at a Senate appropriations hearing.
  • Payments are set to resume 60 days after June 30, or 60 days after a Supreme Court decision on broad debt relief.

President Joe Biden's education secretary confirmed that another extension of the student-loan payment pause is not on the horizon.