NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Republican candidate for Kansas attorney general, Kris Kobach believes that the student loan forgiveness program promulgated by the Biden Administration is unconstitutional.
"Only the legislative branch can appropriate funds, can tax and spend money," Kobach said Thursday. "Joe Biden, by executive decree, has simply declared that these student loan debts will be forgiven. It's not a small amount of money. It amounts to an expenditure of $500 billion, with a b, that's half a trillion dollars, that Biden has simply decided he can, by decree, like an emperor, can spend. The Constitution does not permit that."
Kobach's concern about the program actually goes beyond legal issues alone.
"It's absolutely correct that it must be challenged," Kobach said. "Not only is it unconstitutional, it's also just a bad idea. Everyone listening over the age of 18 at one time or another had to make a decision, am I going to go to college? If so, how am I going to pay for it? Am I going to go to the more expensive college or the less expensive college? Am I going to work my way through? Am I going to use the GI Bill to pay for college? What the Biden order does is, it says, all of you people who made the responsible decision, or maybe didn't even go to college, you're going to pay the debts of people who just took on debt and still have it today. It's just not fair."
Kobach sees pushing back against different types of executive overreach as one of the important functions of the attorney general.