Inauguration Day
noun
: January 20 following a presidential election on which the president of the U.S. is inaugurated
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The next president sworn in: January 20 The 2024 presidential winner takes the oath of office and is sworn in on Inauguration Day.
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Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
Soon after Inauguration Day in January 2021, then White House staffer Clarke Humphrey pressed Twitter to remove a tweet by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. linking baseball player Hank Aaron’s death to coronavirus vaccines.
—Ann Marimow, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
On Inauguration Day, unemployment was 6.3 per cent, and food banks were sustaining millions of people who had been laid off.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The State of the Union Address, Inauguration Day, and the Academy Awards were all once big draws.
—Doug McIntyre, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
That's because Inauguration Day is a holiday for federal employees who work in the District of Columbia area and only happens every four years.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
During the weeks after Congress counts the votes and before Inauguration Day, a winning candidate's running mate becomes the president and will be inaugurated in the case of the president-elect becoming unable to serve.
—USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
That’s important, because Congress could vote before Inauguration Day to lift the disqualification.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
Plus, there’s a theoretical possibility that Congress could vote to remove a disqualification between the election and Inauguration Day.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
Soon after Inauguration Day in January 2021, then White House staffer Clarke Humphrey pressed Twitter to remove a tweet by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. linking baseball player Hank Aaron’s death to coronavirus vaccines.
—Ann Marimow, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
On Inauguration Day, unemployment was 6.3 per cent, and food banks were sustaining millions of people who had been laid off.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The State of the Union Address, Inauguration Day, and the Academy Awards were all once big draws.
—Doug McIntyre, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
That's because Inauguration Day is a holiday for federal employees who work in the District of Columbia area and only happens every four years.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
During the weeks after Congress counts the votes and before Inauguration Day, a winning candidate's running mate becomes the president and will be inaugurated in the case of the president-elect becoming unable to serve.
—USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
That’s important, because Congress could vote before Inauguration Day to lift the disqualification.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
Plus, there’s a theoretical possibility that Congress could vote to remove a disqualification between the election and Inauguration Day.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
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