Senate Democrats are demanding the Joe Biden administration back off its attempts to overturn court rulings that help student debtors. The new demands were prompted by our original series showing the administration has been betraying Biden’s campaign promise to allow borrowers to discharge their student debts through bankruptcy. Instead, the administration has fought debtors in bankruptcy court.

“Over the past several decades, Congress and the courts have together nearly eliminated bankruptcy as a viable path towards financial recovery for most Americans struggling with student loan debt,” twenty-seven Democratic senators wrote in a letter to the Education Department and Justice Department on March 31, the Washington Post reported. “The federal government’s aggressive litigation challenges against students who pursue undue hardship claims further exacerbates this situation,” the letter added.

The letter comes days before a scheduled protest at the Department of Education to press the Biden administration to cancel student debt.