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President calls into Florida conference of young conservative activists to deliver election message
President Trump Monday huddled with members of Congress to discuss plans to object to President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College win and to force a debate on allegations of voter fraud.
Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., attended the White House meeting and said there s growing support for GOP lawmakers from the House and Senate to challenge the election results when a Joint Session of Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to certify the Electoral College result. The vote was 306 to 232 in Biden s favor. We will be raising objections to the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden for multiple states, Greene told Fox News.
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Hundreds of congressional Republicans are poised to mount a formal challenge to President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College win in at least one but possibly multiple states.
Vice President Mike Pence, acting as the Senate president, will preside over a joint session of the new 117th Congress on January 6 to formally certify each state s slates of presidential electors one at a time.
Several House lawmakers and 12 Republican senators have expressed their intention to challenge slates of Electoral College votes from multiple states that voted for Biden.
When the members raise their objections, both chambers of Congress will leave the joint session to go debate and vote separately for two hours on whether to accept or reject the state s electors.
$900 Billion Stimulus With $600 Checks Passes Congress, Ending Months-Long Partisan Stalemate
On 12/21/20 at 11:42 PM EST
More financial help for millions of Americans is finally on the way.
Congress passed the second largest economic stimulus package in U.S. history Monday night, approving a nearly $1 trillion relief bill that marks the end to more than eight months of partisan gridlock that was overcome with marathon negotiations in recent days among congressional leaders.
The $900 billion measure, second in size only to the $2 trillion CARES Act approved earlier this year, includes $300 in weekly jobless benefits, $600 individual checks and small-business aid through the Paycheck Protection Program, among other things.
“Your administration has rightly changed course as a matter of substantive policy by withdrawing from both the Iran Deal and the Paris Agreement. This was a great accomplishment for the American people,” Cruz wrote.
“I urge you now also to remedy the harm done to the balance of powers by submitting the Iran Deal and the Paris Agreement to the Senate as treaties,” Cruz continued. “Only by so doing will the Senate be able to satisfy its constitutional role to provide advice and consent in the event any future administration attempts to revive these dangerous deals.”
Cruz has become a stalwart Trump ally, and if the president takes his advice, he could throw a wrench into the gears of the incoming administration before Biden can even fully nominate his Cabinet. The incoming president has promised that he would rejoin the Paris Agreement “on day one,” and pledged to revive the Iranian nuclear deal he helped negotiate as vice president. Republicans, meanwhile, are unifie