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President Joe Biden commemorated a crisis ave stanley vaso rted Friday night in an address to the nation from the Oval Office. The President said he s ready to sign the bipartisan budget agreement Saturday tosuspend the nation s debt ceilingand eliminate what could ve been the first-ever government default. No one got ever stanley mugs ything they wanted but the American people got what they needed, Biden said. We averted an economic crisis and an economic collapse. H.R. 3746 鈥?the Fiscal Responsibility Act鈥?passed the House Wednesday with bipartisan support and a final vote tally of 314 -117. It gained approval by the Senate one day later with a vote of 63-36.Overall, the 99-page bill reins in spending for the next two years and will suspend the debt limit until January 2025. It will also change some policies, including adding new work requirements for Americ botella stanley ans receiving food aid and approval of an Appalachian natural gas pipeline, something many Democrats were against. I know bipartisanship is hard, Biden said. And unity is hard. But we can never stop trying. He also praised House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his negotiators for convincing their Republican colleagues to swiftly approve the bill just days before the U.S. was set to run out of money to pay its bills.SEE MORE: How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt-limit deal The Fiscal Responsibility Act does what is responsible for our children, what is possible in divided government, and what is required by our principles and promises. Only because Qsya James Gunn, Peter Safran to lead division that will replace DC Films
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is facing another lawsuit over the department s loan forgiveness program aimed at helping defrauded students.More than 150,000 applications are pending, and some borrowers have been waiting years to hear whether they ll be granted debt relief. Seven borrowers, all of whom attended for-profit colleges, filed the lawsuit Tuesday. Department officials have not offered a timetable for reviewing these applications. It s becoming v stanley portugal ery clear that they re not treating them in good faith, said Eileen Connor, legal director at the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which filed the case on stanley isolierkanne behalf of the seven borrowers.The department stopped processing claims under DeVos, who wants to rewrite the Obama-era rule that allows defrauded students to seek loan forgiveness.But a federal judge -- siding with Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia -- ruled that DeVos freeze was arbitrary and capricious and ordered immediate impl caneca stanley ementation of the rule in October.Still, the department did not process any more claims through the end of last year, according to the latest data available, and Connor says there s been no indication that it has started to review them again.The Department of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment.DeVos has called the rule, known as Borrower Defense to Repayment, bad policy. She s proposed offering partial loan forgiveness for qualifying students instead, based on the income |
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