Debt Desk — Debt Desk — October 23, 2026: Election Rules, Rate Relief and Multifamily Credit

Debt Desk · Oct 23, 2026 · 15m

Good morning. It is Friday, October twenty-third.

The national brief begins at the Supreme Court, where a late change to New Hampshire voting rules could matter in one of the country's closest Senate races.

The justices allowed the state to fully enforce a new ban on student identification cards at the polls. A lower court had left the law itself in place but allowed student IDs as a backup way to prove identity. The Supreme Court blocked that backup option, citing the principle that judges generally should not change election rules close to voting. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the…