Miguel Cardona and Joe Biden
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Supreme Court's decision on the Administration's student debt relief program in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, June 30, 2023.
  • The Education Department on Tuesday held its first public hearing on its new student-debt relief plan.
  • It comes after the Supreme Court struck down Biden's first route for debt relief in June.
  • Biden is attempting to use the Higher Education Act of 1965, which will take longer than the first plan.

President Joe Biden's administration has started the process to once again attempt to get student-loan forgiveness to millions of borrowers.