BIDEN to his team: “If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treating another colleague with disrespect, talking down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. On the spot. No ifs ands or buts.”
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@CNN
: President-elect Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump by 12,284 votes in Georgia, according to the final results from the statewide audit.
Georgia plans to certify Biden’s victory on Friday.
Pres. Biden says 100 million doses that were promised by the end of June will now be delivered by the end of May.
Says they are now on track to have 300 million Americans vaccinated by the end of July.
still strikes me as wild that on Jan. 14 Biden proposed a $1.9 trillion package with a series of key planks and the House and Senate have now...passed $1.9 trillion bills with..all of those key planks largely in place
.
@JeffFlake
announces on the floor he has informed McConnell he will not for any judicial nominees on the floor or in the Judiciary Committee until the Mueller protection bill gets a floor vote
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI: “For weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up a potential Supreme Court vacancy this close to the election. Sadly, what was then a hypothetical is now our reality, but my position has not changed."
Here is the entrance of Officer Goodman, serving as the acting Deputy Senate Sergeant at Arms, being announced to the Inauguration in that new role.
What a remarkable 14 days.
Sen. Bill Cassidy: “If anyone disagrees with my vote and would like an explanation I ask them to listen to the arguments presented by the House Managers and former Pres. Trump’s lawyers. The House managers had much stronger constitutional arguments. The president’s team did not.”
Good compilation here from
@Kevinliptakcnn
re: Pres. Trump’s list of objections to the spending package last night vs. Pres. Trump’s own budget requests:
Pres. Biden getting at one of the most confounding things re: those who are reluctant/won't get the vaccine: "All over the world people are desperate to get a shot that every American can get at their neighborhood drugstore."
should note several members and staffers have said their offices are being inundated w/ constituent calls re: the family separation issue - at a level they haven't seen since probably health care, one aide said
if only someone was on live national tv with some kind of wall with voting data at 3:42am and 6:31am on Nov. 4 explaining in real time exactly what was happening in Wisconsin and Michigan - and why it was both expected and unquestionably legal...
The U.S. House, 245-182, voted to pass the resolution to terminate Pres. Trump's National Emergency Declaration.
13 Republicans voted with all Democrats in favor.
The resolution now moves to the Senate.
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@SenFeinstein
asks White House Counsel Don McGahn & FBI Director Christopher Wray for a written copy of the directive sent from the White House to the FBI regarding the Kavanaugh investigation
11 Senate Republicans announce they will object on Jan. 6.
Sen. Cruz
Sen. Johnson
Sen. Lankford
Sen. Daines
Sen. Kennedy
Sen. Blackburn
Sen. Braun
Senators-Elect:
Lummis
Marshall
Hagerty
Tuberville
@JeffFlake
Flake: "I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting a confirmation vote on the floor, until S. 2644 is brought to the full Senate for a vote."
Biden, on Pres. Trump's decision not to concede at this point: "I just think it's an embarrassment, quite frankly. I think it will not help the president's legacy."
so, some personal news as the youths say. thrilled to join this team of great reporters but also good friends.
the Hill will always be my home and my love for the Capitol has only grown in the last 5 days. But stoked to move back down the street and work with these folks.
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@CNN
: 7 day avg of new Covid vaccine doses administered in the US is now 652,084, up 26% over three weeks ago.
Alabama and Arkansas: more than doubled daily rate of doses.
Louisiana: +111% daily rate vs. 3 wks ago.
Missouri: +87% daily rate vs. 3wks ago.
SCOOP: more than 150 top CEOs & execs will send a letter to Hill leaders today backing Biden’s Covid Relief package.
Included on the letter are the top execs from Goldman Sachs, Google, Blackstone, IBM, Lyft, Comcast & more
Pennsylvania GOP
@SenToomey
: “I voted for President Trump and endorsed him for re-election. But, on Wednesday, I intend to vigorously defend our form of government by opposing this effort to disenfranchise millions of voters in my state and others.”
Sen. Mitt Romney says senators are seeking medical advice to determine if any GOP senators need to self-quarantine with the Rand Paul news.
Several senators told CNN Paul was in the gym this morning
News:
@SpeakerPelosi
letter to President Trump suggesting he move State of the Union until after government re-opens - or submit his speech in writing instead - due to Shutdown effect in DHS and Secret Service, via
@FoxReports
&
@arogDC
:
To state the obvious, the commission request will not be granted.
And Joe Biden will be certified after the electoral college tally on Jan. 6 as the 46th President of the United States
The U.S. is planning to slap sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as today, sources tell me.
Move would follow EU action today to add Putin and Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to their sanctions list.
Some news;
@ChrisMurphyCT
&
@brianschatz
are planning to intro a bill pushing to force Pres. Trump's hand on the DPA tomorrow as medical equipment and supply chain concerns grow
respectfully, one is a bracelet my kids made me to stay busy during Jan. 6.
the other is for a family member battling cancer.
if that makes me “look young and immature,” is what it is.
Now that the very expensive, unpopular and unfair Individual Mandate provision has been terminated by us, many States & the U.S. are asking the Supreme Court that Obamacare itself be terminated so that it can be replaced with a FAR BETTER AND MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVE.....
BRRAKING: The U.S. Congress, having tallied the electors, has certified Joe Biden will be the President of the United States of America
Biden: 306
Trump: 232
Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20.
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@PressSec
announces Pres. Biden will order flags on federal property to lowered to half staff for 5 days in remembrance of the U.S. reaching 500,000 Covid deaths
PELOSI: “This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”
President Trump has said McConnell told him his call with the Ukraine President was “perfect.”
McConnell, asked about that today:
“I don’t recall any conversation with the president on that phone call.”
shortly after i started at cnn, i brought my now-5 year old in to see the NY buro.
I barely knew anyone, but
@BrookeBaldwin
dropped everything she was doing, 30 min before her show, to jog over and hang w/ him.
he's been a huge fan ever since. me too. will miss my pal.
wife, going through map of U.S. w/ 4 year old: “and that’s Michigan. Dad doesn’t like Michigan.”
4 year old: “why not?”
me, busting into room like kool aid man with 9 hour multimedia presentation I’ve been preparing since birth: “glad you asked son...”
President Biden issues very lengthy statement on Afghanistan
“One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.”
A US judge approved the seizure of two of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s private planes valued at over $400 million for violating US export and sanctions laws,
@KaraScannell
reports
LOEFFLER: "The events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider."
"I cannot now in good conscious object to the certification of these electors."
Pres. Biden met with Sinema AND Manchin at the WH this afternoon, per official.
Talked infrastructure with both, also focused on voting legislation with Manchin as Senate Dems prepare to hold a procedural vote on S1 tomorrow and talks on Manchin’s language continue
“Imagine you are a United States Senator and you are sitting in an impeachment trial” Cipollone says to United States Senators sitting in an impeachment trial
TONIGHT, Pres. Biden will announce that he is directing states to make all adult Americans eligible for the vaccine no later than May 1, per senior administration officials, a key step in what Biden will say is the goal to get things “closer to normal” by July 4.
Asked by
@kaitlancollins
if Pres. Biden's name will be on stimulus checks a la his predecessor,
@PressSec
says no.
"This is not about him. This is about the American people getting relief...He didn't think that was a priority or a necessary step."
News: The U.S. Senate, 51-50, passed the budget resolution, marking a key step on the Dem path to crafting their Covid relief package.
@VP
Harris cast the tie-breaking vote
Rep. Jody Hiice: objects to Georgia
There is no Senator to pair up. The objection fails.
Hice: “Following today it appears some senators have withdrawn their objections.
Chamber breaks into applause
Long line of big shoes to fill - and an absolute privilege to attack that challenge head on alongside the best White House team in the game.
Back to work.