President Biden announced his student loan forgiveness plan at the end of August.  But in a reversal last week, the Biden Administration announced that it is scaling back its debt forgiveness plan, reducing relief for hundreds of thousands of Americans. All this comes amidst legal challenges targeting the program. biden-student-loan-debt.html">Last week, six Republican-led states filed lawsuit together requesting an immediate restraining order of the program. Arizona has filed a similar lawsuit separately.

We speak with Cory Turner, education correspondent for NPR, about why the Biden Administration has scaled back the program, and whether the student loan forgiveness program will stand up to the legal challenges it now faces.