This week, USA TODAY Politics focuses on the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, his last closet selections, and the last week of the existing Congress.
Dates to view:
January 3: Inauguration of the new Congress.
January 5: Second Senate in Georgia.
January 6: Congress will certify and certify the effects of the joint election.
January 20 – Biden’s inauguration, who will take the oath of office.
Be sure to update this page for the latest transition information.
President Donald Trump will shorten his annual Florida vacation and return to Washington on New Year’s Eve, the White House announced Wednesday.
The announcement came hours after media reports reported that Trump advanced with an annual New Year’s Eve birthday party at his Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, amid the coronavirus pandemic. White House officials didn’t reveal the explanation for why. for Trump’s resolution to return to the White House on Thursday.
Trump has maintained a low profile in Florida since his arrival on December 23 and has rarely been seen off the golf course. Instead of offering a detailed schedule, the White House simply stated that it runs “relentlessly for the American people” and that it would. take “many meetings and calls. “
The president’s return date had been in the air for a long time, but in the afterlife he attended the annual New Year’s birthday party with a black tie in Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s return comes when his request for $2,000 stimulus checks for millions of Americans appears to be dead. Commission to examine the 2020 elections, which Democrats largely oppose.
– John Fritze
Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, said he would oppose the election college’s effects next week when Congress meets to officially certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump, ensuring that a doomed but dramatic Congressional match occurs to nullify Biden’s victory.
Hawley, a close friend of the president, is the first senator to announce that he will make the effort on January 6, making sure that any of the chambers are debattoined and forced to vote on the possibility of overturning Biden’s election victory. Republicans, led by Mo. Brooks, R-Alabama, have said in the past that it would oppose the electoral votes of some of Biden’s battlefield states, such as Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Biden the Electoral College votes 306-232 on December 14.
Trump has called on Congressional Republicans to mobilize and oppose him on his behalf, but many have declared Biden’s victory and some have come to describe the effort as an object of denigration.
However, the effort is doomed to fail in the Democratic-controlled House and even in the Senate, where Republican leaders led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned their colleagues to contest the Electoral College vote.
Read the full story.
– Christal Hayes and Joey Garrison
A proposal through Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to increase Americans’ stimulus checks to $2,000 may only be the ability to pass construction aid controls.
President Donald Trump has asked Congress to draft aid bills included in a $900 billion to $2,000 coronavirus relief program.
The Kentucky Republican filed a bill Tuesday that includes two other Trump lawsuits that Democrats should support: the move would raise checks to $2,000, but would also repeal the 230 segment of the Communications Decency Act, which provides some legal protections to giant-generation companies. and set up a commission to investigate voter fraud.
The commission would take many of the considerations raised through Trump since the election defeat and make recommendations to Congress. The president did not provide evidence to support his claims, and the Department of Justice found no evidence of widespread fraud in last month’s election.
New restrictions: REPUBLICAN Party seeks to cancel postal service in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York said there was no way for Democrats to receive the bill and that he had no chance of getting to Trump’s position. Democrats have asked McConnell to approve an independent proposal on stimulus controls.
Meanwhile, the Treasury Department began issuing $600 bills. The branch said tickets would start for Americans with the direct deposit established through the Internal Revenue Service starting Tuesday night. Paper checks will begin mailing on Wednesday.
McConnell’s bill has not been scheduled for voting and it is unclear whether it will be obtained from Senate Republicans. Some have been in favour of cumulation in emergency checks, but most oppose it.
Holding a vote on the measure would put Republican senators in a bind, either to reject Trump’s demands that a check roll over or to give in to long-standing objections to rising debt.
– Christal Hayes and reports