Both proposals had been sharply criticized by President-elect Donald Trump, and Friday’s actions are an acknowledgment that Democrats have lost - or were about to lose - on both issues.
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Laura Meckler, The Washington PostThe Education Department has withdrawn President Joe Biden's alternative student debt relief regulation, known as Plan B.
Separately, Trump has called the debt-relief effort “vile.” And while Biden has provided nearly $180 billion in relief to 4.9 million Americans to date, his attempts to do more have been thwarted by Republican lawsuits. The issue of trans students and sports has been politically difficult for the Biden administration from the start. Polling shows that a clear majority of Americans oppose allowing transgender athletes to compete on girls’ and women’s teams. Twenty-six states ban their participation.
But if the agency did nothing, that would allow the incoming Trump administration to revise the proposed rule and ban trans girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s teams altogether. And because the Biden rule had already gone through much of the cumbersome rulemaking process, a Trump version could have been implemented quickly and with few bureaucratic hurdles, even if it said something very different from what was originally proposed.
“We do not intend for a final rule to be issued,” it said. “If, in the future, we decide it is appropriate to issue regulations on this topic, we will do so via a new notice of proposed rulemaking, subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act.”
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