President Joe Biden vetoed a measure that would overturn his plan to cancel large amounts of federal student loan debt that could affect tens of millions of borrowers.

“Congressional Republicans led an effort to pass a bill blocking my Administration’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in student debt relief to working and middle class Americans,” Biden said in a tweet on Wednesday. “I won’t back down on helping hardworking folks. That’s why I’m vetoing this bill.”

The GOP-led House passed in March a joint resolution of disapproval employing the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn executive branch rules while doing away with the 60-vote threshold to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. By a 52-46 vote, with Sens. John Tester (D-MT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joining Republicans, the upper chamber passed the measure last week.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) first sponsored the resolution after the Government Accountability Office ruled the Education Department’s actions in this matter were eligible for congressional action and the Congressional Budget Office estimated that cancelling outstanding student loans from the federal government would cost $400 billion.

“President Biden’s so-called student loan forgiveness programs do not make the debt go away, but merely transfer the costs from student loan borrowers onto taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars,” Good said in a statement at the time. “Congress should stop these unilateral actions, and I am proud to lead the fight in the House to hold President Biden accountable for his reckless, unfair, and unlawful student loan proposal. I hope all my colleagues will join me and support this effort.”

While Biden’s opponents in Congress do not appear to have the numbers to override a veto, the student loan plan still has a major hurdle to clear in court. Legal experts believe the conservative-majority Supreme Court will reject the program in a ruling that is expected this summer.

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When Biden announced the debt relief plan in August before the midterm elections, he described it as being part of a wider effort to provide assistance to working families struggling with “strains” associated with the COVID pandemic, a strategy that also included extending a pause on federal student loan payments. That moratorium is slated to expire this year.

The Nashville Metro Employee Benefit Board voted against covering transgender treatments for city employees on Wednesday despite lobbying by the city’s Democratic mayor, John Cooper.

Cooper told board members that adding such treatments and sex-change surgeries to city employee insurance coverage would improve employee recruitment and retention. Cooper’s arguments failed to sway most of the board members, according to Axios.

“Working closely with the LGBTQ caucus, our Administration pushed hard to enact this live-saving change to our health care coverage,” Cooper said in a statement after the measure was voted down. “As a result [of this vote], our trans employees will have to wait at least another year for their rights to be affirmed by their peers on the Benefits Board.”

The vote came the same day that Daily Wire host Matt Walsh revealed after an undercover investigation that transgender health care providers are “rubber-stamping” patients to receive transgender treatments even if they do not qualify. The providers purportedly provide letters to patients upon request that argue such procedures should be covered by insurance companies.

The board’s decision comes amid growing backlash to transgender ideology, especially as the ideology relates to children and grows more pervasive among influential medical groups. Organizations such as the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics have come out in support of “gender-affirming care” that includes hormone treatments and sex-change surgeries for minors in recent years.

States are increasingly moving to block such procedures. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed one such law in March that was scheduled to take effect on July 1. The Department of Justice has sued Tennessee over the law, claiming that it violates the 14 Amendment. A related law intended to shield children from sexually explicit performances was blocked by a federal judge last week.

Tennessee Republicans slammed the ruling from U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker.

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“I am disappointed with the judge’s decision on Senate Bill 3, which ignored 60 years of Supreme Court precedent allowing regulation of obscene entertainment in the presence of minors. Sadly, this ruling is a victory for those who support exposing children to sexual entertainment,” said Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), who authored the bill.