Author: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY

The president will invoke the Defense Production Act to boost the supply of testing and vaccination supplies, among a range of other directives.

“It’s hard sometimes to remember. But that’s how we heal,” Biden said from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Nearly two-thirds, 68%, of the respondents in a new poll from the Pew Research Center said Trump should not remain a major national political figure.

Focus areas include racial justice and equity, immigration, health care, veterans affairs, economic mobility and economic mobility.

Trump will join presidents Andrew Johnson, John Adams and John Quincy Adams in choosing not to attend the inauguration of his successor.

Republican efforts to object to Electoral College results would ignore state sovereignty and exert enormous federal power, experts say.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt led a tour of the monument this week before testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The discord comes weeks before a joint session of Congress convenes Jan. 6 to count votes cast by the Electoral College.

Bernhardt, 51, is “following all CDC guidelines and consulting with medical professionals as appropriate,” his department said in a statement.

With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recognizing Joe Biden’s election win, the dam has broken for President Donald Trump.