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Presidential Transition Highlights: House Says It Will Move Swiftly With Impeachment if Pence Wonât Act
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Democrats suggested they could charge President Trump with âhigh crimes and misdemeanorsâ by midweek for inciting a mob that attacked the Capitol. But top leaders want to avoid hamstringing the first days of Joseph R. Biden Jr.âs presidency with an all-consuming Senate trial.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
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Presidential Transition Highlights: After Days of Refusing to Sign, Trump Suggests He May Act on Relief Bill
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President Trump tweeted on Sunday evening, “Good news on Covid Relief Bill. Information to follow!” Democrats’ House losses in California signal the steep obstacles they will face in 2022.
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President Trump played golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sunday, before signing the pandemic relief bill.Credit.Marco Bello/Reuters
WASHINGTON President Trump abruptly signed a measure on Sunday providing $900 billion in pandemic aid and funding the government through September, ending last-minute turmoil over a possible government shutdown and an economic lifeline for millions of Americans.
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In his victory speech, the president-elect said of Black voters: “You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours.” Many of those voters are watching to see what he does in office.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. with his wife and granddaughter at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., in February. He won the state’s primary later that month.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Published Dec. 24, 2020Updated Dec. 29, 2020
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Joseph R. Biden Jr. went to the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina in late February, before the state’s presidential primary, and listened as the Rev. Isaac J. Holt Jr. delivered a message of encouragement.