Joe Biden is inaugurated as 46th president, Kamala Harris as vice president, Harris is first woman VP, first south Asian and first person of color, Three former presidents attend, 45 does not, first president since 1869 not to attend victor‘s inauguration, VP Harris swears in John Ossoff, youngest Senator at33 and Jewish, and Raphael Warnock, first Black senator (from Georgia both) and Alex Padilla, California’s first Latinx senator, Biden signs 17 Executive Orders on 1st day, environment, racial justice, immigration, virus, NY’s Chuck Schumer is new Senate Majority Leader.
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