Democracy’s day’: Biden sworn in as 46th president of the United States

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation’s historic confluence of crises.

Denouncing a national “uncivil war,” Biden took the oath at athat had been battered by an insurrectionist siege just two weeks earlier. Then, taking his place in the White House Oval Office, Joker he plunged into a stack of executive actions that began to undo the heart of his polarizing predecessor ‘s agenda on matters from the deadly pandemic to climate change.