President Joe Biden and his household, together with Vice President Kamala Harris and her household, attended the Nationwide Tree Lighting on the Ellipse park on the White Home.
Watch the ceremony within the participant above.
Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and different members of Congress joined collectively outdoors the U.S. Capitol Wednesday night to gentle the official 2021 Capitol Christmas tree.
This 12 months’s tree is an 84-foot white fir from the Six Rivers Nationwide Forest in California.
The tree, affectionately nicknamed “Sugar Bear,” made the 4,500 mile journey from California to Washington final month, and has since been adorned with over 15,000 ornaments crafted by California communities.
In remarks on the tree lighting, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy, who hails from California, stated the Sugar Bear tree holds “probably the most ornaments ever as a result of it comes from probably the most populous state.”
Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated the tree is “our image of hope.”
“That has earned it’s infinite nickname the Individuals’s Tree, a testomony to its particular capacity to unite us in consolation and pleasure, regardless of who we’re, the place we’re from. And that spirit conjures up us tonight,” Pelosi added.
The custom of the Capitol Christmas Tree started in 1964.