President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.

The Biden administration withdrew some of its top education proposals on Friday, including its plans to overhaul federal student loans and to set rules around the participation of transgender athletes on school sports teams.

In the final days of his administration, President Joe Biden is pushing to approve new rules that would forgive student debt for 31 million more borrowers. While federal courts ruled against Biden's sweeping student debt forgiveness plans the first time,