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Thursday’s debate couldn’t have gone worse for Joe Biden. But it wasn’t just his own doing. Over the course of the 90-minute debate, the president was repeatedly upstaged by Donald Trump, who took control from the outset by unleashing an onslaught of invectives that Biden could not match.
Joe Biden’s top campaign staffers tried to quickly and forcefully project calm in a private, previously scheduled meeting with donors and bundlers Friday following a disastrous performance in his first debate against Donald Trump. They argued it wasn’t a “campaign killer.” Staffers touted grassroots fundraising numbers. Biden’s campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told them that there was no easy way to get Biden out of the race — or name a new nominee.
Another powerful Democrat in Sacramento has broken ranks with party brass and endorsed a November ballot initiative that would increase prison sentences for retail theft and drug crimes. State Sen. Dave Min, who is running for Rep. Katie Porter’s open House seat in Orange County, told POLITICO that he will support the initiative to roll back parts of Proposition 47 — a decade-old law that reduced penalties for some non-violent felony crimes.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the head of the City Council agreed on a $112.4 billion budget Friday, ending months of conflict over cuts that dragged the mayor’s approval ratings to record lows. The handshake deal, which comes just days before the fiscal year is set to begin July 1, assumes about $800 million more in revenue compared to the previous iteration of the spending blueprint released in April. That additional cash allowed the two sides to avoid proposed cuts to libraries, cultural institutions and early childhood education.
The Education Department will suspend monthly student loan payments and interest for some 3 million borrowers in response to court rulings blocking parts of President Joe Biden’s new loan-repayment program.
Department officials said Friday they would freeze the student loans of borrowers who are enrolled in the program — known as the SAVE plan — and required to make payments in July.
The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a federal law used to charge hundreds of people with obstructing Congress during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, jeopardizing many of those criminal cases. The 6-3 ruling on Friday — in which two justices crossed the court’s usual ideological lines — may force federal prosecutors to reconsider charges in dozens of pending cases, and it could require judges to resentence some defendants already sent to prison for interfering with Congress’ effort to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the last presidential contest.
Steve Bannon is going to prison.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-ditch bid by the longtime Donald Trump ally to stave off a four-month sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago.
The pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza has been removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not reinstalling it unless the aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday. While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full.
Former President Barack Obama offered public support for President Joe Biden after a rough debate performance Thursday that spurred some Democrats to question whether the incumbent has what it takes to defeat Donald Trump.“Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” Obama said in a post on X, a reference to his own first debate with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, which was widely viewed as a victory for the Republican.
Federal prosecutors rested their case Friday against Sen. Bob Menendez and two men accused of bribing him as they began it — focusing on the fishy amounts of cash and gold bars they found in his home stuffed almost comically into bags, boots and jackets. Defense attorneys are expected to call their own witnesses and the trial is unlikely to end until mid-July.
If there’s solace for President Joe Biden after his uneven debate performance last night, it might be that the American people were also not as engaged in the showdown as previous debates.
Biden’s square off with Donald Trump drew 47.9 million viewers on television, CNN announced Friday — a steep decline from the candidates’ first matchup in the 2020 presidential campaign, which was watched by 73 million people across TV networks. The debate sparked a wave of panic throughout the Democratic party after the president spoke with a raspy and sometimes trailing voice, sending the campaign scrambling to calm nerves, reiterate Biden’s case against Trump, and refocus the race on the former president’s misleading statements.
The numbers do not come close to some surveys suggesting that approximately 6 in 10 Americans would watch the match up.
The House narrowly cleared its version of annual Pentagon funding legislation on Friday that Republicans loaded with conservative policy measures. Most of those provisions stand no chance of becoming law once they reach the Senate. The $833 billion defense appropriations bill passed almost entirely with GOP support, as Democratic leaders ripped Republicans for adding restrictions to abortion access, gender-affirming care, climate change efforts, and diversity and inclusion programs. The vote was 217-198, with only five Democrats supporting.
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