Trump Promises ‘Orderly Transition’ After Biden Certified as President-Elect
President Donald Trump promised in early January 7 that there will be an orderly transition on January 20, while vowing to continue fighting for a better America.
“Although I totally disagree with the outcome of the elections and the facts confirm me, however, there will be an orderly transition on January 20. I have always said that we would continue our fight to make sure that only legal votes were counted, ”Trump said in a statement.
“While this represents the end of the best first term in presidential history, it is just the beginning of our fight to make America great again!”
Congress certified Joe Biden as president-elect around 3:45 a.m.
The joint session to count the votes was interrupted by protesters who stormed the Capitol, causing a long delay. A reinforced group of law enforcement officers, including reinforcements from the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI and other agencies, expelled the protesters and allowed lawmakers to reconvene and count electoral votes.
Objections to two states, Arizona and Pennsylvania, were presented with the required support, but were ultimately rejected.
Biden received 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.
Trump had asked Republicans to object to votes from undecided states in which fraud was alleged or proven. Among them are Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Objections require the support of at least one senator, and senators only supported objections to two states.
Biden’s team had criticized the planned voting objections. After the Senate voted 93-6 against Arizona’s certification, Ronald Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, called the vote “an overwhelming rejection of the unfounded undemocratic challenge to the will of Arizona voters.”
Trump during a demonstration early January 6 accused the Democrats of stealing the elections and the “fake media” of supporting them.
“That is what they have done and what they are doing. We never give up. We will never concede, it won’t happen. It is not granted when there is a robbery involved, ”he told a crowd in Washington near the Capitol.
Trump said Vice President Mike Pence should, in his role as chair of the joint session, reject electoral votes from some of the disputed states. Pence did not; it said in a statement that it believed it did not have the “unilateral authority” to do so. Biden was one of those who blamed the president for the violence that unfolded on Capitol Hill; four people died on the Capitol grounds.
What happened “is not a protest; it’s an insurrection, ”Biden said in an address to the nation.
“America is about honor, decency, respect, tolerance. That is what we are. That is what we have always been. The certification of the Electoral College vote, is supposed to be a sacred ritual, which we affirm, its purpose is to affirm the majesty of American democracy. But today’s painful reminder that democracy is fragile and to preserve it requires people of good will, leaders who have the courage to stand up, who are dedicated, not to the pursuit of power or their personal interests, to the pursuit of their own interests. selfish interest at all costs, but for the common good, ”he added.
Trump Promises ‘Orderly Transition’ After Biden Certified as President-Elect
President Donald J. Trump is taking action to expand K-12 educational options for disadvantaged children impacted by the pandemic.
On December 28, the White House announced that he signed an Executive Order offering flexibility to provide certain disadvantaged children with emergency K-12 scholarships to access in-person learning opportunities.
According to the WH release, the Order allows States and eligible entities to use available Federal Community Service Block Grants (CSBG) funds to provide life-changing scholarships to families whose children cannot access in-person learning. CSBG funds totaled nearly $1.7 billion in FY 2020.
Scholarships provided with CSBG funds can help families pay for private school tuition, home schooling, micro schooling, learning-pod expenses, special education services, or tutoring.
President Trump is committed to fighting for our children’s well-being and is acting to protect America’s children who need an in-person learning option from prolonged school closures.
Despite providing $13 billion in Federal support for K-12 schools this spring to safely resume in-person learning, more than half of all public-school students began school remotely this fall.
A lack of in-person learning most harms low-income students and students with disabilities.
Research shows that during school closures this spring, students’ math progress in low-income neighborhoods decreased by nearly 50 percent and those from middle-income neighborhoods fell by almost a third.
According to surveys, children with special needs were twice as likely to receive little or no virtual instruction and to be dissatisfied with the virtual instruction they received.
A recent survey of educators found student absences have doubled during the pandemic.
Analysts project that if in-person classes do not fully resume until January 2021, low-income students will lose over a year of learning.
Projections also show that an average student could lose between $61,000 to $82,000 in lifetime earnings, or the equivalent of a full year of full-time work.
President Trump continues to help each child have a fair shot at the American dream through school choice. He has led a national conversation on expanding school choice and introduced the most transformative education funding proposal ever, Education Freedom Scholarships, and has twice signed legislation re-authorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.
The Trump Administration has invested nearly $1.5 billion in the development of public charter schools, helping this innovative sector grow to 7,500 charter schools serving more than 3 million students.
Because of the President’s historic tax reform, parents across the nation can now withdraw up to $10,000 tax-free per year from 529 education savings plans to cover public, private, or religious K-12 schooling costs.
We will bring you more information on how to take advantage of this educational opportunity as it continues to develop.
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