WASHINGTON- Sen. Ben Sasse and Rep. Don Bacon were among the first Republicans in Congress to acknowledge that Biden won the presidential race. After the second batch of Trump's high profile pardons, Sasse was also among the few Republicans to issue a condemnation of the pardons to a "tranche of felons", “this is rotten to the core,” he said.

“This is 100% Ben Sasse,” Jane Kleeb tweeted late Wednesday. “When it matters, he says nothing. When the tide has turned, he grabs a surfboard to ride the wave.”

Trump also recently vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act which Sasse described as important for national security through deterring cyber warfare. Bacon also co-sponsored the bill's proposal to strip military bases of the names of confederate leaders. He says that Republicans is the party of Lincoln and using those names puts them on the side of Jim Crow. GOP members of Congress passed the bill with veto-proof majority so they just have to hold that.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that Bacon lashed out at Trump's demand for $2,000 check to households rather than the $600 payment included in the long-fought compromise. The house passed a new measure increasing direct payments to $2,000, however the measure faces an uphill battle in the Senate as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced he plans to tie the measure to several controversial items pending, which could pull hamper support from Democrats.

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