Inauguration to move indoors amid dangerously cold temperatures
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Inauguration to move indoors amid dangerously cold temperatures

Donald Trump and JD Vance will be sworn in to office inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday – instead of outside the Capitol – as Washington, D.C. braces for dangerously cold temperatures, the president-elect posted on Truth Social.

The entire inauguration ceremony will move indoors. The last time cold weather scuttled the outdoor inauguration ceremony was in 1985 when Ronald Reagan was sworn into his second term. James Monroe’s second inauguration was also held inside the Capitol, in the House chamber, because of a snowstorm.

The National Weather Service is projecting sunny weather at the National Mall on Monday, with a high around 23 degrees.

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