McConnell in the preceding months had resisted such a move, even while Trump pushed for increased payments ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
“Donald Trump was itching for that same kind of lifeline in September and October, but McConnell’s idea at the time was different,” Grim said.
“That comment that he made in that call with Republican senators was sort of the last data point that you really needed to take your intuition and everything you felt you understood about McConnell’s approach to the general election and to Trump and take it to a place where you can say, ‘OK, now I’m confident that I can conclude that Mitch McConnell was quite fine with Donald Trump losing the presidential election,’” Grim added.
Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff receive COVID-19 vaccine By Melissa Quinn, Caroline Linton
Updated on: December 29, 2020 / 11:13 AM / CBS News Kamala Harris receives COVID vaccine
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, received their first doses of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with the incoming vice president getting her shot on camera as part of efforts to build public trust in the inoculations.
Harris and Emhoff were administered the vaccine at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., by Patricia Cummings, clinical nurse manager at the hospital. Let s do it, Harris told Cummings before she received her shot. I m ready.
The House voted to reapprove the conference report on this must-pass legislation. Today the Senate will set up a final vote for tomorrow, Wednesday, with this chamber to follow suit, McConnell said from the Senate floor on Tuesday. For the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces, failure is simply not an option. So when it s our time in Congress to have their backs, failure is not an option either. I would urge my Republican colleagues to support this legislation one more time when we vote tomorrow, McConnell added.
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But whether the Senate holds a veto override vote on Wednesday is in limbo. McConnell tried to set up the vote earlier but that effort was blocked by Democrats, who are trying to get a separate stand-alone vote to increase the amount of recently passed stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.
Tuesday, December 29th 2020, 12:44 pm
By: CBS News
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, received their first doses of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with the incoming vice president getting her shot on camera as part of efforts to build public trust in the inoculations.
Harris and Emhoff were administered the vaccine at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., by Patricia Cummings, clinical nurse manager at the hospital. Let s do it, Harris told Cummings before she received her shot. I m ready.
After getting the vaccine, the vice president-elect exclaimed that was easy and said it was relatively painless and quick.