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13 Feb, 15 tweets, 1 min read
NOW: The Senate is voting on whether to convict Donald Trump on charges of incitement of insurrection.

The is the big one.

A conviction requires 67 votes.
Richard Burr (!) votes to convict Trump.
Bill Cassidy votes to convict Trump.
Susan Collins votes to convict Trump.
Ted Cruz, as expected, votes to acquit Donald Trump.

Joni Ernst also votes to acquit.
Graham and Grassley vote not guilty.
Mitch McConnell votes to acquit Donald Trump.
Lisa Murkowski votes to convict Donald Trump.
Rob Portman votes to acquit Trump.
Mitt Romney votes to convict Trump, again.
Ben Sasse votes guilty.
The Scotts, Rick and Tim, vote to acquit Trump.
Pat Toomey votes Trump is guilty.
NEWS: Senate votes 57-43 on the impeachment charges against Donald Trump.

Seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats.

Short of the 2/3rd required for conviction.

Trump is acquitted.

It's over.
The 7 Republicans who voted GUILTY to convict Donald Trump on charges of incitement of insurrection:

Burr
Cassidy
Collins
Murkowski
Romney
Sasse
Toomey

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13 Feb
NEW: The Republican civil war ended today. Donald Trump won.

The party’s decision to acquit him on charges of inciting the 1/6 siege on the Capitol frees him to run for president again and cements his status as kingmaker for years to come.

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
The vote by 43 of 50 Republicans to acquit Trump shows the deep and enduring hesitation in the party to disown Trumpism, however they justify it. Senators know their voters care about how they vote, not the caveats they later add in a speech or statement.

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
The vote today was GUILTY or NOT GUILTY, nothing else.

The vote on the constitutionality was on Tuesday and a majority of the Senate ruled it was constitutional.
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13 Feb
The Senate is voting now on "whether or not it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses and or documents."
Republicans voting YES on calling witnesses in this Trump trial: Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse.

(Vote not final yet.)
! Lindsey Graham just changed his vote to YES on calling witnesses in the Trump trial.
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11 Feb
NEW: Democrats are at odds about whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in the Covid bill.

The House is moving forward with it.

If this passes it’ll set up a clash with the Senate, where there is procedural and policy division on a $15 wage.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
President Biden put a $15 wage in his Covid bill but he's backing away by saying it'll likely die under Senate rules. Bernie Sanders isn't happy—he says the policy is eligible for reconciliation and that it's now or never.

Echoes of 2020 primary tension.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Moderate House Democrats increasingly fear that pushing a $15 wage in the Covid bill would be a strategic mistake.

nbcnews.to/3d3Ty8s

How one senior aide from that camp described it to me: Image
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10 Feb
OMB nominee Neera Tanden is now sworn in at the Budget Committee, in a hearing chaired by Bernie Sanders.

These two are allied in shared goals today but they are not — to put it mildly — the best of friends.
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Sanders tells Neera Tanden her social media remarks include not just jabs at Republicans but also “vicious attacks against progressives.”

She acknowledges that her remarks “caused hurt to people...I apologize to people on the left or right who have been hurt by what I’ve said.”
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9 Feb
Trump lawyer Bruce Castor praises the "outstanding presentation" from managers.

"You will not hear any member of the team representing former President Trump say anything but in the strongest possible way denounce the violence of the rioters and those that breached the Capitol."
Trump's lawyer Bruce Castor calls US senators "extraordinary people, in the technical sense." Then discusses Everett Dirksen and his "commanding, gravely voice that just oozes belief and sincerity."
Bruce Castor: "This trial is about trading liberty for the security from the mob? Honestly, no. It can't be. We can't be thinking about that."
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8 Feb
NEW: "The era of small government is over."

Democrats want to bulk up the Covid package with more cash relief, this time for families with kids, the latest sign of a shift within the party away from deficit fears and toward a larger economic safety net.

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On Democrats’ new child allowance: A Columbia study of a similar plan found it’d cut child poverty 42%.

“The ACA — Biden called that a 'big f---ing deal,' and I think this is of the same magnitude in terms of investment in children,” says @SethHanlon.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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