Closing summary
President Joe Biden announced his long-awaited plan to provide student loan relief, which he said would allow tens of millions of Americans to “finally crawl out from under that mountain of debt”. Meanwhile, Democrats are celebrating after their candidate prevailed in a politically finicky House district’s special election last night, a sign that the party may be more popular than expected.
Here’s more about what happened today:
A Republican lawmaker who had his phone seized as part of the justice department’s probe into 2020 election meddling by Donald Trump’s allies is suing to stop them from accessing its data.
The White House decried a Texas court ruling that blocked a requirement hospitals carry out abortions in emergencies.
Trump appeared to concede that he illegally kept official documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Biden said that he was not told in advance about the FBI’s search of Trump’s resort.
Florida Democrats in a very conservative district have chosen a former health worker who was a fierce critic of governor Ron DeSantis’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as their House candidate, but her chances of victory appear slim.
Opponents of Biden’s student debt plan have claimed it is unfair to Americans who already paid off their loans. The president was asked about this as he wrapped up his speech at the White House.
In his response, he draws a comparison to the business-friendly cuts that exist across America’s tax code:
REPORTER: Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) August 24, 2022
BIDEN: Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multi-billion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think? pic.twitter.com/HA9LzLBMSC
