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President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to begin after Joe Biden’s inauguration next week

Now that President Trump has been impeached for the second time, all eyes turn to the Senate where Republicans will need to decide whether to vote for conviction. The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold joined LX News to explain the political calculations being made by Senate Republicans about whether to end the Trump era once and for all.

Trump became the only U.S. president impeached twice, one week before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Democrats still passed a resolution calling on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, then plan to move to impeach President Trump.

President Trump signed four executive orders on Saturday granting Americans financial relief in a number of areas, however, the actions did not provide any funding for a second round of stimulus checks.

The House could vote this week to impeach President Trump over the Capitol insurrection but may wait to send articles to the Senate.

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

“The United States and the U.S. Congress have faced down much greater threats than the unhinged crowd we saw today,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Wednesday. “We’ve never been deterred before, and we will not be deterred today.”

Republican officials, donors and advisors blamed President Trump for the party’s poor showing in the Senate runoff elections in the once reliably red state of Georgia. “Trump f—-d the party,” a staunch Trump ally said. NBC News projected Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as winners of the Georgia runoffs. Republican officials, donors and advisors, many of them behind...

Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed his concern about the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election as he spoke on the Senate Floor. McConnell said “If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept the election again.”

“This is a lesson for the Republican Party of what’s likely to come if they continue to behave this way,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz told CNBC.

Tuesday’s races pit Republican David Perdue against Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler against Democrat Raphael Warnock.

In an 81-13 vote, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act. This marks the first Congressional veto override for Trump.

Congress is ending a chaotic session with a rare rebuff by Republicans of President Donald Trump.

The remarks came shortly after a speech from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who slammed the $2,000 direct payments as “socialism for the rich.”

The Senate has no immediate plans to vote on a House-passed bill to increase the coronavirus relief stimulus checks to $2,000.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks

The deposits started even as some senators tried to pass a bill that would increase stimulus checks in the year-end coronavirus relief package to $2,000.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bid to unanimously pass $2,000 stimulus checks.

Trump has tied repealing Section 230 to the passage of a crucial defense bill and the prospect of approving an increase in coronavirus relief checks to $2,000.