Show Caption Hide Caption GOP-led states block Biden's latest student debt relief plan Touted the most affordable student loan repayment plan ever, the SAVE plan would have provided debt relief to over 30 million Americans. Just a few weeks before Election Day, the Missouri case and other court challenges have barricaded several avenues for student loan relief President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris touted this year. Many people attribute America's student loan mess broadly to colleges, student loan servicers and the courts, according to Mallory SoRelle, an assistant professor of public policy at Duke University who has studied the political impacts of student loan relief.