Trump news live: Latest updates as Republican senator condemns ‘dangerous maneuver’ to annul elections

Oliver O’Connell has more information on Republican Senator Ben Sasse’s condemnatory statement on attempts by his fellow Republicans to overthrow the 2020 election results.

In his open criticism of the actions of some in his party, posted in six parts on Facebook, he wrote: “Let’s be clear what’s going on here: we have a group of ambitious politicians who think there is a quick way to take advantage of the politics of the President. populist base without causing any real long-term harm. “

Washington bureau chief John T Bennett presents his winners and losers in the closing days of this session of Congress and a glimpse of what could happen by 2021:

Bernie Sanders and Senate Democrats are back on the floor on New Year’s Eve to try to force a vote on legislation passed by the House to push one-time direct payments of $ 600 to $ 2,000, which Mitch McConnell has blocked. repeatedly.

On Thursday, he criticized the proposal as “borrowing from our grandchildren to do socialism for the rich,” even though payments are being phased out for people making more than $ 75,000.

McConnell and other Republican senators have condemned the payments as handouts to wealthy Americans, despite their near-unanimous support for Trump’s massive tax cuts that inflated a national deficit that they now claim is too fragile to support larger payments.

Biden’s Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced a national monument to honor the victims of the coronavirus pandemic the day before he is sworn in.

Oliver O’Connell has the details:

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse has called attempts by Republican members of Congress to overturn the 2020 presidential results a “dangerous tactic” as Trump refuses to back down on his electoral challenges.

After Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri announced Wednesday that he plans to challenge the electoral college certification on January 6, when Congress meets to formally approve the results, Sasse urged Republicans to reject the “bill to repeal the elections”.

“All the clever arguments and rhetorical gymnastics in the world will not change the fact that this January 6 effort is designed to disenfranchise millions of Americans simply because they voted for someone from a different party,” he said last night on Facebook. “We should be better than that.”

Some things just never change, right?

Louise Hall brings us this one.

Chief Medaria Arradondo said that the shooting in question occurred during a “traffic stop involving a suspect of a serious crime” around 6:15 pm on Wednesday night, the incident will inevitably come into the spotlight. after the momentous events of this summer.

James Crump has the latest.

Rich Hall has the latest on the president-elect’s preparations to thwart any last-minute hoaxes by his outgoing predecessor as the inauguration approaches.

I alluded to this briefly before, but here’s James Crump with a full account of the two houses of worship in trouble for gross violations of social distancing guidelines as the pandemic rages.

by Indy PremiumI have written a 20-part series that recaps the howling insanity and great charade of Donald Trump’s presidency, one that runs every day from now until January 20 to lead us to the inauguration of Joe Biden as his successor.

The first part begins with the inauguration of the 45th president himself on January 20, 2017, a fateful day, in which a discussion about the size of the crowd told us everything we needed to know about what was to come.