9 Feb 2021
House Democrats rallied on social media after House impeachment managers kicked off the first day of the Senate impeachment trial with a montage of cherry-picked footage from the January 6 Capitol protest and concluded that former President Trump must be barred from running for office ever again.
“What will the January exception mean to future generations if you grant it? I’ll show you,” lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who objected to the certification of the 2016 election results and outlined his intention to impeach the former president before Trump formally took office, said.
The montage, depicting the events that unfolded on January 6, served as the impeachment managers’ timeline in their case against the former president:
Both the House and the Senate on Friday passed the budget resolution that will be used to advance Biden’s relief bill through reconciliation.
While Biden has said he’s open to striking a bipartisan deal, he’s made clear that in his view, Republican counteroffers do not come close to enough aid for the struggling economy.
ADVERTISEMENT What Republicans have proposed is either to do nothing, or not enough, Biden said in prepared remarks on his $1.9 trillion proposal. All of a sudden many of them have rediscovered fiscal restraint and the concern for the deficits. But don’t kid yourself, this approach will come with a cost: more pain for more people for longer than it has to be.