News Brief: States File Petition to Stop Student Loan Repayment Plan, Colorado Declares Disaster Emergency, and IRS Warns Tax Professionals of New Scams

Published on July 11, 2024

Good morning, and welcome to The Epoch Times News Brief for Thursday, July 11, 2024. I’m Bill Thomas, we’ve got some very important stories to share with you today, and here’s what’s going on. A few states want the U.S. Supreme Court to stop President Joe Biden’s student loan repayment program, the DOJ will weigh in on Georgia’s absentee ballot law, and a disaster is declared in Colorado. Also, the House agrees with the State Department condemning the Chinese Communist Party, and the IRS issues another critical warning. We’ll break down each of these stories one by one, but we begin with this....

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