Senators will be sworn in Tuesday and then there will be about a two-week break until the focus is back on impeachment. One more time: in order to pass this resolution without Republicans, Democrats would have to change the rules to allow it to pass by a simple 51-vote majority. Once the budget passes the House and Senate, each committee writes their Covid relief bill. There are already lengthy talks underway now in the House and Senate budget committees, Finance and Ways and Means about what provisions would be acceptable under those guidelines. We don't yet how those members would vote if the reconciliation process began to occur in the next week or two.

Source: CNN January 25, 2021 13:30 UTC