Biden wants Congress to take action on gun reform

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., sobbed while speaking on the House floor, describing the death threats she has received as a Muslim woman in Congress.

While she said she wasn't on Capitol Hill during the insurrection, the day brought up disturbing memories for her -- trauma that she said she will never escape. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walked up to console her, placing a hand on her shoulder for a few moments and quietly standing by her side as Tlaib resumed her remarks.

"This is so personal. This is so hard because as many of my closest colleagues know, on my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat," Tlaib said. "I didn't even get sworn in yet, and someone wanted me dead, just for existing."

"So what happened on January 6, all I could do was thank Allah (God), that I wasn't here. I felt overwhelming relief, and I feel bad for Alexandria and so many of my colleagues who were here," she said through tears.

"I have to tell you, the trauma from just being here, existing as a Muslim, but imagine my team ... they are diverse ... I worry every day for their lives because of this rhetoric. I never thought that they would feel unsafe here," she said. 

"I ask my colleagues to please try not to dehumanize what's happening. This is real. ... Please take what happened on January 6 seriously," she said.

-ABC News' Mariam Khan

House Democrats will head to the White House on Friday for a meeting with Biden to discuss his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, sources familiar confirm to ABC News.

This will be Biden's first in-person meeting with House Democrats since being sworn in. The meeting includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer, and other party leaders and committee chairs.

Biden met with a group of 10 Republican senators on Monday who offered a counterproposal to the president's relief bill and with 11 Democratic Senate leaders on Wednesday.

"We'll get Republican support," Biden said Wednesday of negotiations over his bill. "I think we'll get some Republicans."

-ABC News' Mariam Khan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is leading a special hour of floor speeches where she and other House Democrats are sharing their accounts of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

"Less than 29 days later, with little to no accountability for the bloodshed and trauma of the 6th, some are already demanding that we move on -- or worse, attempting to minimize, discredit or belittle the accounts of survivors," Ocasio-Cortez said.

In compliance with Biden’s executive order requiring masks on federal properties, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced new mask-wearing rules that require masks by worn by all individuals on military installations indoors and outdoors including “all individuals performing official duties on behalf of the Department.”

Some exceptions remain for when someone is alone in an enclosed room with a closed door, while eating, for ID purposes and for a disability. 

Mask-wearing rules at military facilities had already been in place but there had been more exceptions.

Thursday's order changes rules at the Pentagon that allowed for no mask-wearing in shared office spaces as long as one could maintain social distancing.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez