The United States Capitol Police said Wednesday they were aware of a “possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group,” and a notice sent to all congressional offices said the agency was bolstering its security presence. The Senate is set to stay in session Thursday even as the House canceled its remaining votes and was set to send lawmakers home Wednesday night amid a heightened security threat to the Capitol. Senators normally forgo the reading out loud of the entire bill, but Johnson said he would lodge an objection and force the nearly 700-page bill to be read out loud, a process he said could take over ten hours.

Ron Johnson’s threat to force a reading of the entire bill could delay the process even further. The version of the bill passed by the House went billions of dollars over, so Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would have to introduce a Senate version of the bill bringing it in line. Under the special rules used to pass the bill, the total cost must come in under the $1.9 trillion authorized in previous legislation. The Senate had been set to take a procedural vote Wednesday to begin debate on the legislation, but the Senate was still waiting for the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation to estimate the total cost of the Senate version of the bill, the aide said. The Senate’s consideration of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill has been pushed back a day, according to a senior Democratic aide speaking on condition of anonymity.

Stimulus bill update