House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will impeach President Trump as she and other Democratic congressional leaders continued leaning on Cabinet members to invoke their Constitutional authority to oust him. Trump’s incitement of the mob that took over the Capitol building has made him a threat to democracy, Pelosi said. The House planned a Wednesday vote on impeaching Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Latest updates: 2:39 p.m. D.C..
The United States Capitol Police say the scene is clear after they reported that officers responded to a suspicious package near the U.S. Capitol building on Friday night.
Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, questioned the cost of the proposal. The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation previously said increasing the payments in the aid law passed last month to $2,000 from $600 would cost $463 billion.
His stance raises doubts about what kind of direct deposit plan could get through the Senate once Democrats hold a razor-thin majority. The party will have control of a 50-50 chamber through Vice President-elect Kamala Harris tiebreaking vote in the coming weeks, after inauguration on Jan. 20 and the swearing-in of Democratic Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff from Georgia.
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Joe Biden and Democratic congressional leaders have called for trillions of dollars more in pandemic rescue spending as Americans struggle to pay bills and rent during a sustained virus outbreak. Biden called the $900 billion aid plan approved last month a down payment. The push for more assistance comes as the Labor Department rep