Congressional Republicans were largely silent on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Tuesday, even as Democrats sought to use the occasion to blast Donald Trump and a small group of protesters convened on the grounds of the US Capitol in solidarity with those who carried out the attack. Democrats, who are in the minority in Congress after fruitlessly hoping that the well-documented violence would cause voters
Tom Williams//Getty Images Having secured Democratic capitulation on a deal fat with empty promises, Senate Republican leader John Thune made sure that the deal also addressed one of the president's most important issueswhitewashing the insurrection of January 6, 2021. And, needless to say, he did so with the tacit approval of seven Democratic senators. It is, as they say, a bipartisan bill.
