American flags will fly at full height at the United States Capitol and across Texas in recognition of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Last week, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...
AUSTIN – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed that American flags on state property be flown at full-staff to mark President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week, bypassing the national ...
Flags in eight other states, including Texas, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida, will also be raised on Monday.
Tennessee’s Bill Lee and Texas’s Greg Abbott. The move goes against tradition, when flags stay at half-staff for the entirety of a 30-day mourning period following the death of a sitting or ...
Flags were flown at half-staff during Richard Nixon’s second inauguration in January 1973, which followed the death of former President Harry S Truman. On Monday, Republican Texas Gov.
Eight states, including Iowa, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nebraska and Alabama, ordered flags at full-staff during Trump’s inauguration. In addition to the state buildings ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbot has ordered American flags in the Lone Star State to be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office. It was unclear if ...
Despite President Joe Biden’s former directive that U.S. flags would be flown at half-staff ... ahead for the United States of America,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a staunch Trump ally, wrote ...
Trump," he added. This announcement came a day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags to be raised for Inauguration Day.
Bill Lee and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds did so on Tuesday, noting in announcements that U.S. flags across their states would be relowered on Jan. 21 in honor of Carter. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ...
State governors for Florida, Alabama, North Dakota, Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio and Texas have now said flags would be at full-staff for the inauguration and back to half-staff again the ...
DeSantis' order comes a day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott - both Republicans - said flags in their states will fly full-staff during Trump’s Inauguration Day.