On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that a bipartisan group of senators has a new set of questions next week for federal law enforcement about the intelligence failures surrounding the pro-Trump invasion of the U.S. Capitol in January.

"Law enforcement will be grilled about the accusations that their warnings of potential violence were not robust enough," reported Jacqueline Alemany. "Defense officials will be expected to explain the slow deployment of National Guard troops as the extent of the assault became clear. And DHS will be under pressure to crack down more aggressively on domestic extremism."

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has proposed a bill that could kill efforts to increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour.

Axios reported that Hawley's "alternative" plan would provide a refundable tax credit to people making less than $16.50 per hour. Workers would receive 50% of the difference between their weekly pay and the $16.50 threshold. For example, workers making $8 per hour would receive an additional $4.25 in tax credits.

For four years, Donald Trump and his followers mocked Democrats as congenital failures and weepers of "liberal tears." On the 2020 trail, Trump imagined a fistfight he might have with Joe Biden (a famous male weeper), promising his followers that Biden "would go down fast and hard, crying all the way." Madison Cawthorne (R-NC), celebrated winning a Congressional seat last year by tweeting: "Cry more, lib."

It was a ritual in 2020 for Trump supporters to taunt Democrats for crying or, like a bully on a playground, anticipate with delight the tears that would flow from liberal eyes when Trump and his allies scored another victory.