Print this article Infrastructure Week would have been a week blocked out in Congress to debate and pass a bipartisan bill to fund more roads, bridges, and the like during the Trump administration. The term became a taunt because the effort got pushed back so often by other priorities that it never happened.
President-elect Joe Biden s team announced a delay of its own infrastructure week as well. It is partly due to the demands of President Trump. On Dec. 23, 2020, Trump gave a nationally televised speech denouncing the stimulus bill that was winding its way to his desk, saying it was full of wasteful spending on the one hand and not nearly generous enough on the other.
The GOP senators are calling for a panel to look into the “massive security failures” that occurred Jan. 6.
“Congress should not be allowed to investigate itself when it comes to the massive security failures of January 6,” the senators wrote in a statement. “We are calling for an independent commission to be appointed to investigate the security failures that allowed the Capitol to be breached on January 6th resulting in five deaths.”
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The senators said that the commission should be of “nationally recognized, non-partisan security experts,” and established in the “spirit of other bipartisan commissions.”
They added that without the independent commission, the investigation would “fall into the familiar territory of partisan squabbles ultimately resolving nothing.”
UPDATES: President Donald Trump impeached by US House
Trump becomes 1st US president to be impeached twice
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President-elect Joe Biden says he hopes the Senate can balance a second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with “other urgent business” as the coronavirus pandemic rages.
In a statement Wednesday evening, Biden did not take a position on whether the Senate should convict Trump after a bipartisan House vote that charged the outgoing president with inciting the violent insurrection on the U.S. Capitol last week as Congress convened to certify Biden’s presidential election.
Biden blamed Trump for the “armed insurrection” by his supporters. The president-elect called it “an unprecedented assault on our democracy . unlike anything we have witnessed in the 244-year history of our nation.”
Jan 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the fallout from the attack of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):
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A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The House vote on an article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection was still underway Wednesday, but the Democratic-led House had secured enough votes to impeach Trump. Some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach the president.