Vice President Pence opposed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump
Business Insider first reported that Pence would not back the move, citing advisers to the vice president.
Following the violent riots at the Capitol building Wednesday, a number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers urged Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. The 1967 amendment to the Constitution ensures that the government remains in operation should a sitting president be deemed unfit to perform presidential duties.
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A majority of the Trump Cabinet and Pence would have to agree the president is unfit to serve for him to be removed.
anyone,
anywhere, hiding behind the vaunted veil of peaceful protests, is wrong. You don t change the government by destroying it. The thugs from yesterday are responsible for their own actions, she continued. They don t represent the millions of Trump voters, or the massive MAGA movement; they insult them.
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Conway also praised Trump for his response to the riot. Importantly, President Trump has denounced the violence, acknowledged the certified election results and committed to a peaceful transfer of power to the Biden-Harris Administration, she wrote. He is the founder of a movement, leader of a party, and a President whose words persuade millions of people.
Guzman is director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, a post she has held since April 2019. Previously, Guzman worked at the SBA under former President Obama as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the administrator.
Small businesses have been hit particularly hard due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the SBA under President Trump
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Guzman, if confirmed, would oversee any extensions to the loan program, which was intended to provide small businesses with forgivable loans to keep their businesses afloat and keep employees on their payrolls.
The program just received a $284 billion injection from the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill passed in December.
This is one of the great national tragedies of my lifetime. . I have been absolutely despondent watching this, McCain said Thursday. The bedrock of our democracy is the peaceful transition of power. [Trump] is clearly a president who has turned into a mad king, and at this point, I’m calling on all Republicans and conservatives who still have clout we have to invoke the 25th Amendment. We cannot withstand this. Our country cannot go on like this.
McCain, a vocal Trump critic who celebrated President-elect Joe Biden
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The daughter of the late GOP Sen. John McCain These bastards are using the American flag as symbols as they are attacking our own Republic, she said. You are not patriots. You do not represent America. You are scum of the earth who are using and abusing and bastardizing all that I love and have grown up with for your own sick agenda.