Tensions, threats, disarray in run-up to Biden inauguration newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Security efforts are ramping up in Washington D.C. and local areas ahead of next week's inauguration amid the FBI's warnings to prepare for violence from extremists.
Impeachment, resignation, 25th Amendment: How Democrats in Congress are trying to remove Trump after Capitol riots Ledyard King and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
Here s how the 25th Amendment works and who can invoke it
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WASHINGTON – Democrats are demanding President Donald Trump s removal – or at least barring him from ever holding public office again – for whipping up a crowd of supporters who rushed the Capitol Jan. 6, leading to a deadly riot.
They ve called for his resignation, urged the Cabinet to remove him under the 25th Amendment and, with those two options looking extremely unlikely, are preparing to impeach the president for a second time.
The remarkable break between the two men played out over a tense few days as the country convulsed from a riot spurred on by President Trump is a startling capstone to a relationship long defined by Vice President Mike Pence's loyalty and subservience.
Live updates: Biden’s tone, flurry of orders underscore new day for U.S. By Vanessa Arredondo, Dominic Fracassa and Rita Beamish
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their new administration got to work in a nation besieged by a raging pandemic, economic calamity and deep political divisions. Biden signed 17 executive orders shortly after his swearing-in, dealing with the pandemic, climate change, immigration and other pressing issues that reflected the dramatic divergence of his priorities from those of the vanquished Trump administration.
Latest updates today:
1:56 p.m. Biden immigration bill nixes word “alien”: In a small but symbolic part of President Biden’s proposed sweeping immigration overhaul, the word “alien” will be removed from US immigration laws, replaced by “noncitizen,” CNN reports. “It’s a deliberate step intended to recognize America as “a nation of immigrants,” according to a summary of the bill. The