10 days ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement The $200 prescription drug gift certificates that President Donald Trump promised ahead of the November election won't be going out, according to his outgoing Medicare chief.
The discount cards were supposed to get mailed out close to the November election to 33 million people on Medicare to help them pay for prescription drugs they buy at the pharmacy. Medicare covers seniors as well as others who qualify because of a disability.
"At this time they haven't gone out," Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma told Insider in an exclusive interview...
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10 days ago | By Forbes
The list includes House GOP No. 3 Liz Cheney, as well as a handful of younger rising GOP stars.
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10 days ago | By Business Insider
Rioters clash with police using big ladder trying to enter Capitol building through the front doors.
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Only 10 House Republicans voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time on Wednesday, a move a week after the deadly Capitol siege that most Republicans vehemently opposed.
The GOP lawmakers defending Trump cited one line from his January 6 speech as purported evidence that he did not provoke the Capitol siege.
Trump at one moment in the speech called on his supporters to protest "peacefully," but during the rest of it he...
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10 days ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday over his role in inciting a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol that resulted in five deaths.
It was the second time Trump was impeached and the most bipartisan impeachment vote in US history. Five House Democrats voted to impeach President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s, and no Democrats voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868. President Richard Nixon resigned from office before he was formally impeached.
Trump was previously impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of...
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10 days ago | By Fortune
A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time , just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results-a speech that was followed by a mob of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. The House vote on an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” was still underway Wednesday afternoon.
During debate before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republicans and Democrats to “search their souls.” Trump would be the first American president to be impeached twice.
Trump “must go,” Pelosi said. “He...
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10 days ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement The House of Representatives reached enough votes to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon over his role in inciting an attempted coup at the US Capitol that resulted in five deaths. The article of impeachment against Trump charged him with "incitement of insurrection."
Ten Republican lawmakers broke ranks and sided with their Democratic colleagues, and Trump is the first president to be impeached twice.
The events that led up to the Capitol riots were set in motion months before January 6, as the president fed his loyalists a steady diet of lies and...
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10 days ago | By Forbes
House Democrats, joined by a small group of Republicans, voted to impeach Trump for the second time on Wednesday, exactly one week after the Capitol takeover.
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10 days ago | By Forbes
Lawmakers say there were an “extremely high number of outside groups” in the Capitol the day before it was stormed by Trump supporters.
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10 days ago | By Forbes
A petition circulating among House Republicans notes that Cheney's statement announcing her vote for impeachment has been quoted by numerous Democrats.
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10 days ago | By Business Insider
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump released a statement on Wednesday condemning violence while the House debated impeaching him for provoking last week's deadly Capitol riots.
"I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind," Trump said.
The House plans to impeach Trump on Wednesday afternoon, charging him with incitement of insurrection.
He is poised to be the first president in American history...
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10 days ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said President Donald Trump "bears responsibility" for the Capitol siege, while underscoring that President-elect Joe Biden was legitimately elected.
Speaking before the House as it debated Trump's impeachment, the Republican leader expressed opposition to impeaching the president but endorsed a resolution to censure the commander-in-chief. Though McCarthy was present for the mayhem at the Capitol and witnessed it firsthand, he said impeachment should not occur without an investigation.
McCarthy said a vote to impeach...
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