Democrats

Marco Rubio and Joe Biden both supported $2,000 direct payments in the Covid-19 relief bill passed late last year, a push that was blocked by Mitch McConnell.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Bonnie Watson Coleman and Brad Schneider contracted Covid-19 after sheltering with Republicans who didn’t wear masks.

Supreme Court rejects efforts by Trump and his allies to get the court to quickly consider challenges to Biden’s victory in the November election.

The White House expressed sympathy over the deaths and injuries in the riot at the Capitol, which President Donald Trump encouraged.

Lisa Murkowski said Trump should resign immediately, the harshest rebuke yet from a GOP senator.

Trump announced his decision that he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration one day after he finally conceded the November presidential election.

Pelosi said she spoke to Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley about precautions that could block Trump from “ordering a nuclear strike.”

Dominion Voting Systems said Sidney Powell’s false and outlandish claims about fraud in the 2020 election “caused unprecedented harm.”

Democrats will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since the first half of President Barack Obama’s first term.

Trump has told aides in recent weeks that he would like to issue himself a federal pardon, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Both Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi said President Trump incited an “insurrection” against the country.

More than 6,000 National Guard personnel will deploy to the nation’s capital and remain in the region for a minimum of 30 days.

In introducing Garland, President-elect Biden said that the Justice Department does not serve the president: “Your loyalty is not to me.”

Trump’s statement came minutes after Congress formally confirmed the election of Joe Biden as president.

The briefing comes as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called for Trump’s immediate removal from office in a statement Wednesday morning.

Muriel Bowser called for Congress to establish a panel to investigate the security lapses that enabled a mob to penetrate the U.S. Capitol Complex.

Prime ministers and foreign dignitaries around the world reeled while watching scenes from the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

The push from the party’s most liberal members comes just two weeks before Trump will be forced to leave office anyway.

“At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault,” the president-elect said from Wilmington, Delaware.

The FBI said it had dispatched with two suspicious devices that were uncovered in Washington after reports of improvised explosives on the U.S. Capitol.