WASHINGTON - President Biden this Friday will celebrate the two-year anniversary of 6 Jan. six attack that took place on the Capitol by presenting the Presidential Citizens Medal to a dozen people who stood up to efforts to invalidate the presidential election of 2020.

The Vice President. Biden will present the award, which is one of the highest civilian honors in the country during a ceremony held on the White House, officials said. The award is presented to those with "performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens."

The group that will be honored includes a who's names of people who defended the outcome of the 2020 election even in face of the threats by Donald J. Trump and his most vocal supporters.

It also includes some of the most powerful Republicans including Rusty Bowers, the former Arizona House speaker, and Al Schmidt, the city commissioner of Pennsylvania who helped to confirm the president. Trump's defeat in their states by insisting that all absentee ballots counted. Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state for Michigan was in charge of an extensive procedure to count the votes cast in Detroit.

He will also honor the late Mr. Biden will also honor Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, who were responsible for processing ballots during the 2020 elections to members of the Fulton County, Ga. Elections board. They were wrongly accused of manipulating votes by Donald J. Trump, his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, as well as the website that promotes conspiracy theories, The Gateway Pundit.

Two women later filed a lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit and Mr. Giuliani, and Ms. Freeman, like several of the other honorees presented evidence at members of the House committee looking into the attack on Jan. 6, attack.

In addition, the president is scheduled to recognize 7 policemen who protected Capitol Hill Capitol at the Capitol on January. 6 and included Brian Sicknick, who died from a stroke just a day after.

The ceremony is just two years following the violence of Trump supporters who violently pushed their entry to the Capitol in order to prevent lawmakers from officially attesting to the legitimacy of Mr. Biden's triumph over. Trump.

Since since then since then, Mr. Biden has repeatedly warned that the events of the dayand the wider attempt by Trump and his allies to undermine confidence in the election. Trump and his allies to undermine the confidence of voters during the election pose a serious danger to American democratic institutions.

"For the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol," Biden said. Biden said during an address on the one-year anniversary of the attack.

In those remarks, President. Biden vowed to work against those who facilitated the assault on that day of darkness within American history.

"I will stand in this breach," he declared while speaking in the Capitol. "I will stand up for this country. I will not allow person to put a dagger on the neck of our democratic system."

This year Biden will be the keynote speaker. Biden's speech will be centered on those who attempted to protect the rule of law.

Other recipients are:

- Harry Dunn, an Capitol Police officer who faced the racial stereotypes and harassment on January. 6.

- Caroline Edwards, the first police officer to be injured by rioters.

- Michael Fanone, an Washington police officer, was wounded in the incident.

- Aquilino Gonell is a sergeant in the Capitol Police who was injured during the attack.

- Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who led an anti-Trump crowd away from the front door of Senate chamber Senate room during the assault.

- Daniel Hodges, a Washington police officer, was wounded during the attack. The White House, Jan. 6 was his first day at the Capitol.
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