McConnell privately says he wants Trump gone as Republicans quietly lobby him to convict Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images policy, but his predecessor left lasting partisan divisions in Washington that pose a risk to getting the new presidents agenda through Congress. President Joe Biden is seeking to wipe away Donald Trump's fingerprints from U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, wears a protective mask while walking to his office from the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Senators will be sworn in for the trial the next day, according to the calendar outlined by Schumer, with trial arguments slated to start on February 9. The hopes that Biden could bring a different tone to Washington – which were so bright on Inauguration Day – were complicated by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that the House would deliver the impeachment article charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday evening. The looming trial – which has the potential to inflame partisan divisions just as quickly as Biden was trying to squelch them – offers no visible upside to a President who was elected on his promise to bring the warring parties of Washington together and forge compromise in a Capitol that has been defined by strife. He has insisted that Trump must be held accountable for the attempted insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, but he has been notably cool to the prospect of impeachment as he tries to unravel Trump’s legacy with more than two dozen executive orders in his first three days in office, while simultaneously working the phones to build broader legislative consensus. Group of Democratic lawmakers urge Biden to commute the sentences of death row prisonersīiden is caught in an almost impossible vise as the nation reengages in the most polarizing kind of proceeding that exists in Washington.Senate confirms Lloyd Austin to be first Black defense secretary.Biden signs orders to get checks and food aid to low-income Americans – plus a federal pay raise.Here are the 30 executive orders and actions Biden signed in his first three days.
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