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Former Republican President Donald Trump left no doubt about Iowa’s future as he campaigned for votes ahead of his 2016 victory.
“You’re going to keep your place in history. You’re going to be that first state,” he told Des Moines rallygoers that August. Efforts to reorient the presidential nominating calendar? “Not gonna happen if I win.”
But now, a president who has made no such promises occupies the White House, and calls for scrapping Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses have reached a new fervor.
One year after Iowa’s 2020 Democratic caucuses ended in calamity, Democratic President Joe Biden has assumed his role as the head of the party and installed former South Carolina state party chairman Jaime Harrison as leader of the Democratic National Committee. Both will have substantial power over conversations about Iowa’s future, but neither has given any public indication of how he might wield it.
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to reporters a day after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump occupied the Capitol, during a news conference in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A laptop was stolen from the office of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, one of her aides said on Friday.
Drew Hammill, an aide to Democrat Pelosi, said on Twitter that the laptop belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations. He declined to offer further details.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives prepared to take the first step forward on President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package on Tuesday, with a key vote expected to fast-track the measure through Congress.
A fiscal 2021 budget measure, with coronavirus-related spending instructions for congressional committees, headed for a House vote that would help unlock a legislative tool needed for Democrats to enact Biden s package swiftly in the face of Republican opposition.
Republicans have pushed back on the $1.9 trillion price tag of Biden s proposal, which comes on top of $4 trillion in COVID-19 aid last year. On Monday, the president met with 10 Senate Republicans to discuss their own scaled-back $618 billion plan. He told lawmakers it did not go far enough to address a pandemic that has killed nearly 444,000 Americans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday took the first steps toward advancing President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid plan without Republican support.
The Senate voted along party lines, with Democrats edging out Republicans 50-49, to open debate on a fiscal 2021 budget resolution with coronavirus aid spending instructions. Using this strategy unlocks a legislative tool needed for Democrats to enact Biden’s package in the face of Republican opposition.
Republicans used the ploy when they controlled Congress in 2017 to pass a sweeping tax reform bill without Democratic support.
Republicans have pushed back on the Democratic president’s price tag, which follows $4 trillion in COVID-19 aid last year.