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The government was going to pay off the loans. This is why MOHELA publicly said it was all the same to them. Internally they projected increase revenue from forgiveness.

https://truthout.org/articles/report-central-legal-case-against-student-debt-relief-is-fundamentally-false/

I was under the impression the student loan companies did not care. They were getting paid regardless.