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Eighteen Republican led states are attempting to block President Biden's student loan forgiveness effort to cancel billions in student loan debt.
On Tuesday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is leading a coalition of seven states in a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its SAVE plan.
The lawsuit comes after eleven other states led by Kansas recently filed another lawsuit against the Biden administration over the program that began forgiving student loan debt earlier this year.
'With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with half trillion dollars in college debt,' the Missouri attorney general said in a statement.
'The United States Constitution makes clear that the President lacks the authority to unilaterally "cancel" student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress,' he added.
The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimated the SAVE plan could cost as much as $474.9 billion over then years.
Two lawsuits have been filed by Republican state attorneys general against the Biden administration's income-driven repayment program known as the SAVE plan
Missouri is joined in the lawsuit by the Republican Attorneys General of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma.
The lawsuit filed in the district court for the Eastern District of Missouri states the latest attempt to 'sidesteps the Constitution is only the most recent instance in a long but troubling pattern of the President relying on innocuous language from decades-old statues to impose drastic, costly policy changes.'
Last month, Kansas was joined by Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and Utah in another lawsuit filed in Kansas.
