Mr. Walsh, a former union leader, beat out other potential picks like Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont and Julie Su, secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
Passing over Ms. Su didn’t sit well with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which had been lobbying Mr. Biden to name an Asian American and Pacific Islander to his Cabinet.
“The glaring omission of an AAPI Cabinet Secretary in the self-declared ‘most diverse Cabinet in history’ is not lost on us and sends a demoralizing message to our nation’s fastest growing racial group and voting bloc that AAPIs do not need to be counted the same as other key constituency groups,” said Rep. Judy Chu of California, who chairs the caucus.
Trump store taken offline by Shopify Follow Us
Question of the Day By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 7, 2021
The Trump Organization’s TrumpStore.com has been taken offline by the e-commerce platform Shopify in response to the riots by angry Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The link to the Trump store redirected on Thursday a webpage showing the message “Oops, something went wrong.”
Shopify made the decision to remove the website because it said President Trump violated its acceptable use policy that prohibits the promotion of organizations or people that threaten or condone violence to further a cause, according to reports. The e-commerce website terminated stores affiliated with Mr. Trump on its platform.
The violent end of the Trump era: a mob and the breach of democracy.
A mob acting in President Trump’s name stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Jan. 7, 2021
Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, has covered four administrations. This is his analysis of the historic moment in Washington.
So this is how it ends. The presidency of Donald John Trump, rooted from the beginning in anger, division and conspiracy-mongering, comes to a close with a violent mob storming the Capitol at the instigation of a defeated leader trying to hang onto power as if America were just another authoritarian nation.
Georgia Senate Runoffs: What to Watch For
Control of the Senate is at stake. The candidates have shattered spending records. President Trump hovers over the two contests. Here is what we’re keeping an eye on as voters head to the polls.
People waited in line in Marietta, Ga., last month for the first day of early in-person voting in the state’s Senate runoff elections. About three million people cast ballots during the early voting period.Credit.Audra Melton for The New York Times
Published Jan. 5, 2021Updated Jan. 16, 2021
Two months after the presidential election, Georgia voters will decide in two runoff elections on Tuesday which party controls the Senate, determining how much President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. can accomplish during his first two years in the White House.