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As part of the American Rescue Plan passed in March, the Biden Administration increased the Earned Income Tax Credit for low- and middle-income workers. We are going to see millions of lives improved over the next year because of these changes, only to be erased when these provisions expire in 2022. We cannot let that happen. We must make these provisions permanent.
Mississippi House Rep. Michael Guest, who represents Mississippi’s third congressional district, was one of the just 35 Republicans in the U.S. House to vote in favor of a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Today’s vote to impeach President Donald Trump inciting the insurrection last week at the U.S. Capitol made history as the most bipartisan impeachment vote in history.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith plans to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration despite voting last week to overturn the election results in two key swing states mere hours after a pro-Trump insurrectionist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Congress should take immediate action to remove President Donald Trump from office after yesterday’s insurrection at the nation’s Capitol, U.S. House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, Mississippi’s most powerful congressman, said in a statement this afternoon. House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment today, charging the president with inciting an insurrection.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, joined five other senators this evening in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi’s senior Republican in the Senate, says he will oppose attempts by some in his party to overthrow American democracy and stop the elected incoming presidential administration from taking power.
Top Mississippi Republicans Fail to Acknowledge Biden Victory as Fitch Joins Trump Lawsuit
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