Republicans want the Speaker of the House to stand up to President Joe Biden after he canceled student debt.

To many GOP lawmakers' dismay, Biden announced last week up to $20,000 in student-loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients making under $125,000 a year, and up to $10,000 in relief for other federal borrowers under the same income cap.

Leading up to the relief, many critics of the plan argued the president does not have the authority to implement sweeping loan forgiveness without congressional approval. A year ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of those critics, and on Friday, 94 Republicans asked her to do something about it.

Specifically, Pelosi said in July 2021 that "people think that the President of the United States has the power of debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress." 

The lawmakers, led by Georgia Rep. Jody Hice, wrote a letter asking Pelosi to stand by those comments and declare student-loan forgiveness "unconstitutional and illegal."