Rhode Island National Guard to be part of security forces in D.C. during inauguration Published Wed Jan 13 2021 23:58:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Members of the state’s National Guard will be sent to the nation s capitol this week as part of a growing military effort to provide protection after a pro-Trump mob occupied the U.S. Capitol last week. by John Bender
Between 75 and 100 local soldiers and airmen are set to be deployed to Washington D.C. in the coming days, according to Brigadier General Andrew Chevalier, who is coordinating the effort.
The troops will join thousands of servicemen and women in the area before and during the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. According to Chevalier, they may be armed as needed.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – Governor Gina Raimondo and Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee held a joint coronavirus briefing on Wednesday.
Additionally, the briefing was Raimondo’s first public appearance since her nomination into President-elect Joe Biden‘s cabinet.
The Governor said both her and McKee’s teams are meeting on a daily basis, and McKee has agreed to keep the state’s current COVID-19 response team in place.
Raimondo said this should give Rhode Islanders some comfort in the transition of power between the two.
Additionally, Raimondo noted that weekly coronavirus briefings will continue, along with daily email updates from the Governor’s office. Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott will hold briefings on the state’s vaccination efforts ever week, along with an additional general COVID-19 update every Thursday.
Rhode Island Republican state Rep. Justin Price marched to the U.S. Capitol on January 6 for what became the deadly pro-Trump riot. Price has also promoted coronavirus and QAnon conspiracy theories that originated from social media and far-right media.
Price is facing calls from fellow Rhode Island lawmakers to resign after his participation in the January 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. He has responded by tweeting that he “marched to the capitol with 1 million peaceful patriots” and by echoing right-wing media by falsely claiming: “Unfortunately ANTIFA /BLM infiltrated our peaceful movement and they got caught in the act.” He has said that he did not enter the Capitol building.
POLITICAL SCENE: Where do we go from here? My parents are pretty pleased. They re psyched, Harvard University senior
Gina Raimondo told The Journal in 1992 after learning she had been named a Rhodes Scholar and handed a golden ticket to study at Oxford.
She appeared similarly pumped and, unusually for her, perhaps a little nervous last week as she told her family s story, and that of her father s doomed Bulova watch factory, while being introduced as the country s next commerce secretary. I am excited to get to work on a national scale . to help more hardworking families in every community write the next chapter in their own American stories, she said.