President Trump has left the White House and is on his way to Florida where he will begin his post-presidency. President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as
President-elect Joe Biden made a sober entrance to the nation's capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as America reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more violence as he prepares to take the oath of office.
Biden, an avid fan of Amtrak, had planned to take a train into Washington ahead of Wednesday's Inauguration Day, but scratched that plan in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
He instead flew into a military airbase just outside the capital on Tuesday afternoon and then motorcaded into fortress D.C. — a city that's been flooded by some 25,000 National Guard troops guarding a Capitol, White House and National Mall that are wrapped in a maze of barricades and tall fencing.
Shortly before Biden departed for Washington, the U.S. reached another grim milestone in the pandemic, surpassing 400,000 deaths from the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
“These are dark times," Biden told dozens of supporters in an emotional sendoff in Delaware before departing for Washington.
Back in Minnesota Republicans try to change laws to curtail Walz powers Republicans have spent months arguing for an end to the peacetime emergency that allows Gov. Tim Walz to issue orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. During a series of special sessions last year, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to end the emergency while the DFL-led House did not.
Now they’re trying to enact new laws to chip away at Walz’s power. [Read More]
