The Echoes of Jan. 6 and Donald Trump Wants ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:32.5 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:40.9 | Congress meets to certify the electoral college votes for Donald Trump's presidential victory. Will there be any Democratic |
| 0:46.3 | protests at the Capitol? And what about Donald Trump's promise to pardon the January 6 rioters |
| 0:51.7 | from four years ago? Plus, Trump and Republican leaders in Congress |
| 0:56.5 | seem to decide to go with one big, beautiful bill for the Trump agenda, as Donald Trump |
| 1:02.2 | calls it, rather than breaking it up into two parts that could pass one part quickly and another |
| 1:08.2 | part, the tax part later. What are they thinking with a strategy |
| 1:11.6 | and what are the risks? Welcome to Potomac Watch, the Daily Podcast, to Wall Street Journal |
| 1:17.4 | Opinion Pages. I'm Paul Gigi, editor of those pages, and I'm here with Kim Strassel and |
| 1:22.4 | Kyle Peterson, my esteemed colleagues. Well, the holidays are over. I can certainly tell from my email |
| 1:28.6 | load, which is coming fast and furious after some blessedly quiet weeks. But Congress is back |
| 1:34.3 | and it'll certify the electoral votes for Donald Trump. 312 electoral votes from 31 states, |
| 1:39.9 | plus Maine's second congressional district compared to 226, plus votes in 19 states, I think it is, |
| 1:47.2 | plus D.C., District of Columbia and Nebraska's second congressional district for Kamala Harris. |
| 1:54.0 | Trump also won the popular vote with 49.9 percent to Kamala Harris is 48.4 percent, |
| 2:00.6 | but in the U.S. system, the Electoral College is what counts. |
| 2:04.6 | And today is the decisive day of certification. Kamala Harris, Donald Trump's competitor, |
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