You are right! I mean, isn't the following good news? > Since interest was not charged during the pause, it has effectively canceled $240 billion worth of stud

You are right! I mean, isn't the following good news? > Since interest was not charged during the pause, it has effectively canceled $240 billion worth of student debt. That’s more than half the amount that would have been canceled through President Biden’s one-time loan-forgiveness scheme, had the Supreme Court not intervened. If the author wanted people to sympathize with the lenders, they did a really poor job at that.