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Here’s
where the day stands so far:
- Joe Biden will soon sign a series of executive orders aimed at unraveling Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. One of the orders will establish a task force to reunite migrant families who were separated as a result of Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy.
- Trump’s defense team and the House impeachment managers filed briefs ahead of next week’s Senate trial. While the impeachment managers argued Trump must be convicted because he posed a threat to the foundation of American democracy, the former president’s team falsely claimed that he did not incite the violent insurrection at the US Capitol last month. On January 6, Trump repeated his lies about election fraud and explicitly told his supporters to march to the Capitol as Congress certified Biden’s victory in the presidential race.
- The Senate advanced a budget resolution, paving the way to pass coronavirus relief without Republican support. In a 50-49 vote, the Senate approved the motion to debate the budget resolution. The vote puts Democrats on track to pass Biden’s relief package using reconciliation, meaning they would only need 51 votes to get the bill through the Senate.
- Two more members of Biden’s cabinet were confirmed. The Senate confirmed Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary and Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of homeland security. Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the Senate, and Mayorkas is the first Latino and first immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
- The Biden administration will start shipping vaccines directly to US pharmacies. The new program will launch in a limited capacity next week, and the White House promised it would expand vaccine access in neighborhoods across the country.
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