POLITICO NEWSROOM

A skeptical SCOTUS eyes Biden’s student debt plan

Episode Summary

Polls open in less than an hour in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight rivals — and a very real chance of being shut out of the likely April 4 runoff election. President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan will come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, whose justices will decide in the months following today’s oral arguments whether the $400 billion program is constitutional. And the House Select Committee on China holds its first hearing this evening against a backdrop of rising trans-Pacific tensions.

Episode Notes

Polls open in less than an hour in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight rivals — and a very real chance of being shut out of the likely April 4 runoff election. President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan will come under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, whose justices will decide in the months following today’s oral arguments whether the $400 billion program is constitutional. And the House Select Committee on China holds its first hearing this evening against a backdrop of rising trans-Pacific tensions.