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Flags to fly at half staff

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - President Joe Biden has issued a Presidential Proclamation ordering the lowering of flags to half-staff immediately in honor and remembrance of the victims of the horrific tragedy in Monterey Park, California.

The flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset, January 26, 2023. 

You can view the full proclamation below.

As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on January 21, 2023, in Monterey Park, California, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, January 26, 2023.  I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.

 JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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