On Wednesday, the Chairman US Senate Committee on Finance Chuck Grassley said the panel would consider President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, next week ahead of Inauguration Day.

Point to be noted that she was confirmed in 2014 as chair of the Federal Reserve.

She received 26 votes from senators and 19 of them are still in the upper chamber of US Congress.

There were 18 senators not voting and 12 of them are still sitting senators, and only 3 lawmakers crossed party lines to vote in favor of her nomination, including Sens.

Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Richard Burr of North Carolina.Yellen has a long history of serving under Democratic administrations.

Yellen was appointed to help guide the US economy following the 2008 financial crisis.

On Thursday, the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied that the House of Representatives had adjourned early because of a potential QAnon threat on the Capitol and called it “Silliness”.

She informed reporters and said, “I don’t think anybody should take any encouragement that because some troublemakers might show up that we changed our whole schedule.

No, we just moved it a few hours and it largely will accommodate the Republicans going to their own session”.

Pelosi also said the purpose of the adjournment was to give House Republicans time to hold their annual issues conference because of a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump would be inaugurated that day for a 2nd term.Pelosi added, “The silliness of this being Inauguration Day and that in May the president will be inaugurated falls into the realm of ‘Let’s not waste our time on it’”.

Some followers of the elaborate conspiracy theory QAnon believe the March date is still the ‘Real’ inauguration day and Trump will return to power then.

The Capitol Police said they had received intelligence that a militia group was planning to storm the Capitol a 2nd time in order to make that fantasy a reality.