The National Guard has removed 12 people from duty protecting the U.S. Capitol after background checks found links to extremists or other issues that raised concerns.

Janet Yellen’s nomination for Treasury secretary could be approved by the Senate as soon as Thursday, senators indicated during her confirmation hearing.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the mob that stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 was “fed lies” and “provoked by the president” and others into violence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is formally instructing Canada’s finance minister to re-establish a firm budgetary target after the Covid-19 crisis and avoid creating any new permanent spending.

Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to do more to fight a deep pandemic-induced recession, saying the threats of a longer and even worse downturn are too great to cut back on support now.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 34% in a Gallup poll released Monday, the low point of a presidency that already had the weakest average approval rating of any of his predecessors since the survey began in the 1940s.

President-elect Joe Biden will take office on Wednesday surrounded by a Cabinet made up largely, if not entirely, of acting secretaries after circumstances combined to slow Senate confirmation of his nominees for top posts.

President-elect Joe Biden will ask Congress for US$1.9 trillion to fund immediate relief for the pandemic-wracked U.S. economy, a package that risks swift Republican opposition over big-ticket spending on Democratic priorities including aid to state and local governments.

Lawmakers from both parties are demanding investigations into how a mob of President Donald Trump supporters managed to overwhelm security at the U.S. Capitol, including whether they got any assistance from inside the building.