President Joe Biden and members of Congress are solemnly marking the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is preparing to mark the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, gathering with lawmakers to remember the violent attack that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy.
Psaki said Biden's speech would"lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw." In a bid to inform the public, Democrats investigating the insurrection plan to spend the coming months telling the American people exactly what happened last Jan. 6. But leaders will spend the anniversary appealing to broader patriotic instincts.
"There is truth and there are lies," Biden said at the time."Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders - leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation - to defend the truth and to defeat the lies."A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper House balcony that day are still recovering from lingering trauma.
Biden's sharp message and the Republicans' distance from it come as lawmakers are adjusting to the new normal on Capitol Hill - the growing tensions that many worry will result in more violence or, someday, a legitimate election being overturned. Democrats and a handful of Republicans feel a desperate urgency to connect to a public in which some have come to believe Trump's lies that the election was stolen from him and that the attack wasn't violent at all.
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