Daily Digest for December 10, 2020 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning. With both parties unable to reach a deal on a larger spending deal and a possible economic stimulus bill, House lawmakers approved a one-week, temporary funding measure to avoid a government shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline.
The House approved the measure on a 343 to 67 vote. It now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it and send the bill to President Donald Trump's desk by week's end.
House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., expressed frustration that lawmakers had to approve yet another stopgap measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep the government's lights on.
"We ought not to believe or pretend or represent this is the way we ought to do business. It is not," Hoyer, D-Md., said on the House floor. "It is a function of procrastination, a function of failing to come together and making compromises."
Despite Trump's venting and threats, Biden's win is sealed There’s plenty of noise but no cause for confusion as President Donald Trump vents about how the election turned out and vows to subvert it even still.
This truth is self-evident: Joe Biden is on track to become president Jan. 20. The machinery of government and democracy is moving inexorably toward that end despite Trump’s attempts to undermine the voters’ will.
Trump on Wednesday demanded an “OVERTURN’ of the outcome in a collection of tweets arguing he could only have lost the election if it were ”FIXED.” He attempted to support his case by saying odds-makers on election night heavily favored his reelection, “the so-called ‘bookies,’” as if a gambler’s bet mattered. It doesn’t.
Americans who don’t wish to get caught up in the nitty gritty of Trump’s attempts to undermine the election can take their cue from one of the many judges who have dismissed the complaints of his team or his allies that the voting or counting was corrupt.
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