When Ticketmaster's website crashed on Tuesday over Taylor Swift's concert
presale, White House chief of staff Ron Klain bragged that the Biden
administration's student loan forgiveness portal processed eight million
applications without crashing. He failed to mention the program is stalled
and has delivered no money.

"Over my years in the public and private sectors, I've had people tell me:
If only the government could work like business," Klain tweeted. "Well,
the team at [the Department of Education] and [the U.S. Digital Service]
built a Student Loan Forgiveness portal that processed 8 MILLION
applications in the first 30 hours without a crash."

The administration, however, stopped taking student loan forgiveness
applications last week after a federal judge halted the program.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled Nov. 10 that the program is beyond
the president's authority. "The Program is thus an unconstitutional
exercise of Congress's legislative power and must be vacated," he wrote.

Pittman added that "we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a
pen and a phone."

The program would cost $400 billion, according to the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office.

Published under: Biden Administration, Ron Klain, Student Loans

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