Initially, flags have been ordered to be at half-staff for 30 days to honor the passing of former President Jimmy Carter.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered all flags to be raised to full workers on the Texas Capitol and all state buildings on January 20, 2025, in honor of Inauguration Day.
The governor cited a federal statute stating that “the U.S. flag be displayed particularly on…Inauguration Day, January 20.”
President Joe Biden ordered flags to be at half-staff for 30 days following the loss of life of former President Jimmy Carter. This order would have included President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, set for January 20 in Washington, D.C.
Following Biden’s order, Abbott ordered flags in Texas to be at half-staff at some point of Biden’s directive.
Right here is the unique order:
“President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has issued an order decreasing flags to half-staff for thirty days in honor of former President James E. Carter, Jr. who handed away. Texas flags ought to stay at half-staff for a similar time period.”
Right here is the governor’s full assertion on his new order issued Monday morning:
“Texas continues to mourn with our fellow People throughout the nation over the passing of former President Jimmy Carter. President Carter’s steadfast management left a long-lasting legacy that might be felt for generations to come back, which collectively as a nation we honor by displaying flags at half-staff for 30 days. On January 20, our nice nation will have fun our democratic custom of transferring energy to a brand new President by inaugurating the forty seventh President of the US, Donald J. Trump. As we unite our nation and usher on this new period of management, I ordered all flags to be raised to full-staff on the Texas Capitol and all state buildings for the inauguration of President Trump. Whereas we honor the service of a former President, we should additionally have fun the service of an incoming President and the intense future forward for the US of America.”
This would be the second time that flags might be at half-staff in the course of the presidential inauguration.
This comes from an authentic proclamation signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower that orders flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days upon the loss of life of officers. On December 29, Biden enacted that proclamation following Carter’s loss of life.
The primary time flags have been at half-staff in the course of the inauguration was in 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon took the oath of workplace weeks after the loss of life of former President Harry S. Truman, who died on Dec. 26, 1972.
