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Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday introduced that American flags on the Capitol can be briefly raised on Monday for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, successfully defying a presidential order put in place final month to mourn the demise of former President Jimmy Carter.
The transfer got here after Mr. Trump complained that flags had been scheduled to be at half-staff throughout his inaugural ceremony. President Biden ordered all flags to be lowered to half-staff for one month following Mr. Carter’s demise on Dec. 29, following custom and U.S. flag code.
“On Jan. 20, the flags on the Capitol will fly at full employees to have a good time our nation coming collectively behind the inauguration of our forty seventh president, Donald Trump,” Mr. Johnson stated in an announcement asserting the change. He stated flags would return to half-staff the subsequent day to proceed honoring Mr. Carter by way of the top of January.
Earlier this month Mr. Trump expressed his frustration over the opportunity of flags remaining lowered throughout his inauguration, saying in a submit on social media that, “Democrats are all ‘giddy’” in regards to the imagery. He made it clear that he would push for a change, including that “no American will be completely happy about it.”
“Let’s see the way it performs out,” he stated.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, informed reporters this month that Mr. Biden was not contemplating modifying or briefly suspending his flag order to accommodate Monday’s ceremonies.
Shortly after Mr. Carter’s funeral providers, American flags at Trump’s personal Florida membership, Mar-a-Lago, had been raised again to full top. And in a transfer of solidarity with the incoming president, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas additionally ordered all flags be raised to full employees on the state’s capitol and different state buildings for Inauguration Day.
“While we honor the service of a former president, we should additionally have a good time the service of an incoming president,” Mr. Abbott stated in an announcement on Monday asserting the change.
Mr. Trump had asserted that his would have been the primary presidential inauguration the place flags weren’t flying at full employees. But President Richard Nixon recited his oath of workplace on the United States Capitol in January 1973 with flags flying at half-staff due to the demise of President Harry Truman 25 days earlier.
