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Warren 2020

BlueMTexpat

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2. There is a bit of a kerfluffle

Reply to Cicada (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 03:10 PM

Jan 2020

about that. The authority to forgive debt is actually granted to the Secretary of Education, a member of the Executive Branch.

But, as the Secretary appointee - who would have to run the Senate approval gauntlet - could not take office on Day One, Elizabeth apparently believes that she, as President and therefore Head of the Executive Branch, could get a jump on this issue right away.

Given that she is not only an attorney, but also a very effective one, and because she certainly would have consulted and verified this action with other legal experts, she probably can, despite all the mostly non-legal naysayers. She doesn't make things up out of whole cloth.

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