Today, with 18 days left until Election Day, President Biden will continue to promote Democratic policies that the White House thinks should resonate with voters as he touts his plans to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for more than 40 million people. Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at Delaware State University in Dover a day after a federal judge denied a bid by six Republican-led states to block his administration from moving forward. Earlier, Biden touted a steep drop in the federal deficit in remarks from the White House.
Stephen K. Bannon, the longtime adviser to former president Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to four months in prison and fined $6,500 for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The judge said he would stay imposition of the penalty pending Bannon’s expected appeal.
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