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WASHINGTON Republicans in the U.S. Congress reacted jubilantly and removed their masks on Thursday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can stop wearing face coverings even indoors in most cases.
“Free at last,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said as he left the chamber, according to a reporter for The New York Times, who tweeted out a photo of a maskless McConnell.
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Two of Pennsylvania’s Republican members of Congress are speaking out about their vote Wednesday to oust U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from House leadership.
U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14) said in a statement he will support Cheney’s likely successor, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, in part because of how she handled herself during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Trump was accused of inciting the attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6. Five people died in the attack.
57 senators voted to convict him, but that was 10 votes short of the two-thirds needed for conviction. Cheney
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Liz Cheney (R-WY) out of their leadership over her refusal to fall in line behind former President
Donald Trump and his election lies.
The show kicked off Wednesday with a discussion on Cheney’s latest defiant comments toward Trump after being booted from her conference chair position.
Whoopi Goldberg asked
Joy Behar what she thinks Cheney’s ouster says about the state of the country, and Behar responded with a grandiose metaphor.
“[Cheney] is the Joan of Arc standing up to the heretics at this point, and she is very lonely in that position,” Behar said. She added, “It’s refreshing to see someone stand up to the QAnon party who is not afraid to lose her job like the rest of those cowards who are shivering and quivering in the corner. This is just another big lie that they’re perpetuating on the American people.”