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Impeachment of Donald Trump: the Senate trial, a double-edged sword for Democrats

2021-01-14T19:35:00.376Z


DECRYPTION - The impeachment procedure can have serious consequences on the legislative priorities of the new Administration.


Donald Trump's last poisoned gift to his successor Joe Biden was not premeditated: the parliamentary impeachment procedure against the outgoing president, which began on Monday in the House of Representatives, will bounce back in the Senate after its "Inauguration Day", the ceremony of investiture of January 20.

Equipped with the narrowest room for maneuver in the upper house of Congress, on a perfect equality of votes with the Republicans (50) and that, decisive, of the future vice-president Kamala Harris, the Democrats now fear that the trial of Donald Trump for "

inciting an insurgency

" does not strike the legislative priorities of the new Administration.

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Foremost among them are the national coordination of the fight against Covid-19 and the diligent distribution of vaccine doses, measures to revive a land-based economy and checks to individuals, the return to the country. Paris climate agreement, the extension of the Obamacare health insurance scheme,

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Source: lefigaro

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