President Joe Biden will award Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who served as chair and vice chair of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, with the Presidential Citizens Medal during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday.

The medal is the second-highest civilian award in the United States, behind only the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Thompson and Cheney’s inclusion on the list of honorees comes as President-elect Donald Trump has increasingly…