Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) forced out Senate sergeant-at-arms Michael Stenger one day after rioters breached the Capitol, the GOP leader announced Thursday night.
After a chaotic situation unfolded at the US Capitol following a pro-Trump mob swarming the House and Senate chambers on Wednesday, calls for the removal of Pre
“Absolutely not. No,” Manchin told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday. “Getting people vaccinated, that’s job No. 1.”
“How is the money that we invest now going to help us best to get jobs back and get people employed? And I can’t tell you that sending another check out is gonna do that to a person that’s already got a check,” he said.
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Manchin in a tweet, later said if a new round of checks go out, they should be targeted to ensure they go to those in need.
If the next round of stimulus checks goes out they should be targeted to those who need it. https://t.co/MWvt9EHOBS Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen JoeManchin) January 8, 2021
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“President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election. [His] willingness to invite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard.”
House Judiciary Committee Democrats penned those words to Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday night, urging him and Donald Trump’s cabinet to sideline the president making Pence acting president under the Constitution’s 25th Amendment. They, along with Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, and one GOP congressman called for Trump’s removal after he invited thousands of supporters to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and inflamed them with falsehoods about having won last month’s election. The mob violently stormed the Capitol and delayed the Senate’s certifying of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
“Moving on” requires accountability.
Attacking our nation without recourse or responsibility isn’t “moving on.” A Capitol Police officer just died. Why are you defending this? https://t.co/yTjh6ikNJs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 8, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Graham s tweets by calling him out for defending the president, whom many Democrats and some Republicans have condemned as responsible for inciting Wednesday s riots.
ADVERTISEMENT Move on? Moving on does not mean forget about it, @LindseyGrahamSC, she wrote. “ Moving on requires accountability. Attacking our nation without recourse or responsibility isn t moving on. A Capitol Police officer just died. Why are you defending this?