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President Joe Biden will deliver his inaugural joint address to a mostly absent Congress, Supreme Court, and Cabinet in order to adhere to COVID-19 safety precautions.
Just 200 people will be sitting in the House for the event.
Instead of addressing a chamber packed with 535 members and a thousand more guests, including the presidential Cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and the diplomatic corps, Biden will be facing a partially empty room.
Even the press corps, which normally numbers in the hundreds, has been whittled down to only a few journalists.
Lawmakers were also pared back. Only 80 House lawmakers will be in attendance and just 60 senators, divided evenly between the parties.
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