Author: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY

Biden also directed his National Security Council to build out its capability to counter domestic violent extremism threats.

The president will invoke the Defense Production Act to boost the supply of testing and vaccination supplies, among a range of other directives.

“It’s hard sometimes to remember. But that’s how we heal,” Biden said from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

We’re two days from President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day and here are the updates from Washington.

Nearly two-thirds, 68%, of the respondents in a new poll from the Pew Research Center said Trump should not remain a major national political figure.

Republican efforts to object to Electoral College results would ignore state sovereignty and exert enormous federal power, experts say.

Lawmakers rejecting results. A vice president presiding over his own election loss. It will happen this year, but it’s also happened before.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt led a tour of the monument this week before testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The dischord comes weeks before a joint session of Congress convenes Jan. 6 to count votes cast by the Electoral College.

Bernhardt, 51, is “following all CDC guidelines and consulting with medical professionals as appropriate,” his department said in a statement.