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The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Section 2 provides a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. Before the Twenty-fifth Amendment, a vice-presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next presidential term; the vice presidency had become vacant several times due to death, resignation, or succession to the presidency, and these vacancies had often lasted several years.
The White House COVID-19 Response Team was the task force during the presidency of Joe Biden to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.It was set up by President Joe Biden on his first day in office [1] – January 20, 2021 – and replaced President Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force and President Biden's transitional COVID-19 Advisory Board.
If the winning candidate dies before the Electoral College meets, the electors could coalesce around a replacement candidate recommended by the party, perhaps the vice presidential candidate.
But the vice president returned repeatedly to the chief challenge of the Biden administration: battling a pandemic that — thanks to a new fast-spreading variant, Omicron — has led many ...
With new mutated Omicron variants causing a rise in illnesses, experts are reminding Americans about common breakthrough symptoms. These 'Nightmare' COVID-19 Variant Symptoms Are Shared With New ...
Harris being sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on January 20, 2021. Harris was sworn in as vice president on 11:40 a.m. on January 20, 2021, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. [185] She is the United States' first woman vice president, first African-American vice president, and first Asian-American vice president.
COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the U.S. and in Georgia. Here's what you need to know about the omicron variant, rise in cases and more.