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After pro-Trump violent protests broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Congress reconvened at night and certified that Joe Biden is the winner of the presidential election. Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff for communications and social media director, released the following statement on behalf of President Trump:
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
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Former Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., head of the Biden-Harris transition and for whom a key piece of transition law is named, did his most extensive interview since the election on the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service’s transition podcast, which was published on Friday. “I thought we [saw] the most difficult transition because of the Great Recession, the financial crisis, in 2008, but it s nothing like this,” he said. “No other transition has ever taken place with this set of challenges: a pandemic, a recession, a racial justice crisis, an unpredictable president and political polarization.” He also outlined the “four rules” of the Biden-Harris transition team, which are: until Election Day, the campaign is the most important thing; what happens in the transition,
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Government funding expires at midnight and as of late Friday morning, lawmakers had yet to reach an agreement on that or another stimulus package for the economic recession resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic. If there is a shutdown, transition funding won’t be impacted because it “was an anomaly line item in the September [continuing resolution],” Matthew Glassman, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute, told
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on ABC News on Tuesday, that he strongly recommends President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible. “For security reasons, I really feel strongly that we should get them vaccinated as soon as we possibly can,” he said. “You want him fully protected as he enters into the presidency in January.” Fauci also recommended that President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence get it, despite the fact that Trump already had coronavirus and likely has antibodies now. Here are some of the other recent headlines you might have missed.