Flags in New York’s Nassau County not lowered to half-staff following Jimmy Carter’s loss of life

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York’s Lengthy 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 Govt Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, has not publicly defined his cause for not decreasing flags at Nassau County-operated buildings. Following Carter’s loss of life 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 Information New York that he was “unavailable for remark.”

Democratic county legislator Seth Koslow instructed CBS Information 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 performed as president, and it is the proper 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 Nationwide 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 loss of life, Biden ordered that flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days in any respect federal buildings and navy amenities — an edict based mostly on a proclamation that was issued by 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 loss of life of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag might, for the primary time ever throughout an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. No person desires to see this, and no American may be comfortable about it. Let’s examine the way it performs out.”

Throughout a briefing Friday, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned the White Home wouldn’t take into account reversing or reevaluating the order.

Trump mentioned that he plans to attend Carter’s funeral. 

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