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Here are the celebrities joining Biden s star-studded inauguration By Elizabeth Elkind Biden s inauguration unlike any in history
Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks are performing for President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration on January 20, amid a week of events packed with celebrity power but void of crowds.
While the coronavirus pandemic forced changes to the traditional proceedings, the president-elect s chosen theme of American United summarizes a campaign run on celebrating differences but coming together over a common good.
The theme reflects the Biden-Harris commitment to healing the nation and bringing Americans together, according to the inaugural committee. It also reflects the dueling crises the incoming Biden administration is facing, with a global pandemic that has killed nearly 400,000 Americans and the civil unrest that culminated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in early January.
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President-elect Joe Biden will become the country’s 46th president on Wednesday under exceptionally tight security, protected by more than 20,000 National Guard troops two weeks after rioters took over the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election.
But the danger posed by the continuing coronavirus pandemic will not stop Wednesday’s ceremony, 232 years after President George Washington took the first oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol at noon, Biden will give an inaugural address and an abridged ceremony will go forward with prayers, Lady Gaga signing the national anthem, a musical performance by Jennifer Lopez and a poetry reading from the country’s youth poet laureate, Amanda Gorman.
(Reuters) - Three new Democratic U.S. senators, including the winners of a pair of Georgia races and the successor to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, are set to be sworn in on Wednesday, a source familiar with the planning said, giving the party a working majority in the chamber.
President-elect Joe Biden arrived in the nation's capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as the nation reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more violence as he prepares to take the oath of office.