Biden wants Congress to take action on gun reform

The impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday, after the Senate reconvenes at 1 p.m. and conducts its morning business.

The House impeachment managers will gather at 12:55 p.m. and once they process into the Senate chamber, the trial will begin with procedural housekeeping, including approval of the resolutions that choreograph the trial. There will then be four hours of arguments and then a vote over the constitutionality of the trial.

On Wednesday, the House impeachment managers must file all motions, except those related to witnesses by 9 a.m., and Trump's legal team must to respond to the House managers' motions by 11 a.m. The trial will resume at noon, with arguments and a vote for any motions made by either side. After that, opening arguments begin and the House impeachment managers have up to 16 hours over two days, though both sides are limited to eight hours of arguments each day.

On Thursday, the House impeachment managers will continue and finish oral arguments with the proceedings beginning at noon. Trump's legal team begin their opening arguments on Friday. The trial resume at noon, but they will be finished by 5 p.m. in observance of the Sabbath.

 The trial will continue at 2 p.m. Sunday and Trump's legal team is expected to finish their arguments. After that, senators may ask questions in writing, though they cannot exceed four hours of questions in one day.

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The trial picks back up at noon on Monday -- finishing any business from Sunday. There will then be two hours of debate and a vote on whether to call witnesses. If the Senate calls witnesses, they will take depositions. The House impeachment managers and Trump's legal team are then permitted to make a motion to admit evidence, provided that the other side has been given at least 48 hours' notice. After that, there will be one hour of arguments evenly divided between the sides and then a vote on the motion to include evidence.

The trial will end with four hours of closing arguments, evenly divided between the sides. The Senate will then vote on conviction. Two-thirds of the senators must be present and voting for a conviction.

-ABC News' Trish Turner

The Senate confirmed Denis McDonough to serve as the secretary of veterans affairs.

The confirmation was approved by a vote of 87-7. McDonough previously served in various positions in former President Barack Obama’s White House, including chief of staff.

-ABC News' Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin

A new Congressional Budget Office report on the Biden administration's proposed $15 minimum wage hike delivers some bad news for the new president: enacting the raise would cause about 1.4 million jobs to be lost, higher prices on some goods and an increase in the federal deficit. On the other hand, the report also says the minimum wage increase would pull 900,000 Americans out of poverty -- a figure that proponents of the increase are already highlighting. 

The White House pushed back on the report's assessment, saying that was "overstated" and that other research shows "at most, a modest effect on employment." The administration is, however, embracing other aspects of the report, touting that 27 million workers could benefit from the wage increase. A White House spokesperson said that the president believes that no American should work full-time and live in poverty or struggle to make ends meet, and also touted the benefits to individuals and to the economy.

But the risk of a 0.9% job loss could be a tough pill for the White House to swallow. Asked Monday about the report, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said only that she didn't have a chance to review it with the White House economic team before the briefing.

The minimum wage increase is included in Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. The administration has portrayed it as a way to help essential frontline workers who have to risk themselves to virus exposure to keep things like grocery stores and restaurants running during the pandemic.

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The Biden administration is reviewing the deportation of veterans and military families that took place during the Trump administration, according to a White House official.

"As a military parent, President Biden knows the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make for our country each and every day," White House assistant press secretary Vedant Patel said in a written statement. "The administration's immigration enforcement will focus on those who are national security and public safety threats, not military families, service members or veterans. The federal government in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security will take further review of removals of veterans and their family members."

Patel declined to provide a timeline for the review or an estimate of how many people could be affected. The move is part of a broader review of the previous administration's immigration policies.

On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order that directed a reset of priorities for immigration enforcement, and that same day, the acting secretary of homeland security, issued a memo that directed the Department of Homeland Security to review "policies and practices concerning immigration enforcement."

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson