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President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday withdrew its plan to forgive massive amounts of student loans, reneging on one of the administration’s biggest promises just one month before the president is expected to leave office.

The Education Department’s plans to forgive millions of student loan debts has been hit with multiple legal challenges over the years, and its first attempt to forgive student loans by using emergency powers tied to the Covid-19 pandemic was even blocked by the Supreme Court last year.

The department in a notice on Friday said that it was rescinding two of its major pending proposals, including one that has been blocked by a federal judge after a coalition of conservative attorneys general sued the administration.

Department officials cited “operational challenges” of attempting to implement the two rules in their reasoning, but maintained the legality of the plan, according to Politico. They also said they want to prioritize “helping at-risk borrowers return to repayment successfully,” for the remainder of the term.

The notice comes the same day the administration announced it had forgiven an additional $4.28 billion in student debt relief for roughly 55,000 public service workers. 

“Four years ago, the Biden-Harris Administration made a pledge to America’s teachers, service members, nurses, first responders, and other public servants that we would fix the broken Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and I’m proud to say that we delivered,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a press release.

The new loan forgiveness brings the total amount of student loan relief money under the administration to almost $180 billion for 4.9 million borrowers.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.