#shorts On 2/1/2023, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Doesn’t the HEROES Act, though, require that — the national emergency for the Secretary to use it? I know we’re splitting hairs here, but what I’m getting at is: Yes, there was national emergency. Yes, the administration used the HEROES Act, because of the national emergency, to cancel student debt. And I understand that the position that the administration staked out in the DOJ brief is that it doesn’t have to be in effect to do the program. But my — my question I’m getting at is: When do you stop being harmed by the pandemic? How are we measuring it? And —”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: That’s a good question. Look, it’s not any — and it’s not any — any emergency power. It is, again, something that the Secretary of Education gets to — the HEROES Act is something that is in his purview that he’s able to use, an authority that he’s able to use. And that’s a decision that the Secretary of Education is going to make.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/VuuCIM0kwJ4
Q: When do you stop being harmed by the pandemic? student loan A: in his purview he’s able to use