White House reports full staffing after weather delay

It's so cold in Washington, DC that politicians are going to have to warm up their inauguration speeches.

As president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris hand over the reins to the president-elect Donald Trump And J.D. Vance During the presidential inauguration on January 20, the American capital experienced intense cold.

In fact, the temperature is so low that the White House flag rigging is frozen, that is, the flags that were flying at half-staff after the president's death. Jimmy Carter we could not be raised to their full height until the end of the morning.

Like the Wall Street Journal's Olivia Beavers wrote on X, formerly Twitter“Speaker (Microphone) Johnson I had previously said that the House would raise American flags for the full inauguration day, but the operation is running into a problem: the cords are frozen, a source in Johnson's office confirms to me.

But that's not the only way cold temperatures affected the Jan. 20 proceedings: While the swearing-in normally takes place on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol building, the ceremony was moved inside the rotunda of the Capitol.