MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York’s Long Island has seemingly refused to decrease flags to half-staff in reminiscence of the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who died final weekend on the age of 100.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, has not publicly defined his motive for not reducing flags at Nassau County-operated buildings. Following Carter’s demise Sunday, President Biden referred to as for flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days in any respect federal amenities.
When reached Friday, a spokesman for Blakeman instructed CBS News New York that was “unavailable for remark.”
Democratic county legislator Seth Koslow instructed CBS News New York that honoring a former president ought to transcend partisan politics, calling the transfer a humiliation to Nassau County.
“Politics should not play into this proper now. This needs to be about what’s proper for an individual who represented our nation, who guided our nation after which served our nation after they have been achieved as president, and it is the fitting factor to do,” Koslow mentioned.
Carter died Dec. 29 at his residence in Plains, Georgia. Mr. Biden declared Jan. 9 a nationwide day of mourning for Carter. A state funeral can be held that day on the National Cathedral in Washington. Carter will lie in state within the Capitol Rotunda from Jan. 7 to Jan. 9.
Flags at half-staff on Inauguration Day
Following Carter’s demise on Dec. 29, Biden ordered that flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days in any respect federal buildings and navy amenities — an edict from a proclamation that was issued by then-President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954.
The order means flags will nonetheless be at half-staff on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump assumes workplace.
In a social media publish Friday, Trump wrote that “due to the demise of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag might, for the primary time ever throughout an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody needs to see this, and no American could be blissful about it. Let’s see the way it performs out.”
During a briefing Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned the White House wouldn’t contemplate reversing or reevaluating the order.
Trump mentioned that he plans to attend Carter’s funeral.
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