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Prospects Brighten for State and Local Aid from Washington With Democrats in control of the Senate and the rest of Washington, further stimulus is a near-certainty. State and local aid, which has been held up by the GOP, will be part of the mix. Alan Greenblatt, Senior Staff Writer | January 11, 2021 | Analysis
Washington is suddenly looking more generous. Last Tuesday’s elections in Georgia gave Democrats control of the Senate. That means, among other things, there s new hope that Congress will provide additional aid to states and localities.
“There will be another bill,” says Patrick Murphy, vice president of public finance at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic foundation. “I don’t question that now.”
After a day of insurrection and deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley continued his push on Wednesday to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
But his efforts were for naught, as lawmakers early Thursday certified Electoral College votes declaring Joe Biden the winner.
Among the loudest critics is his political mentor former U.S. Sen. John Danforth who Thursday afternoon told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that working to get Hawley elected to the Senate in 2018 “was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”
Hawley made headlines with his announcement that he would object to certifying Biden’s win, arguing that Pennsylvania’s electoral votes should be disqualified because he believes a 2019 law approved by the state’s Republican Legislature and sustained by the state’s supreme court violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.
House Democrats filed an article of impeachment on Monday against President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection following the violent mob riot on Capitol Hill.