Now that the President Joe Biden's inauguration has come and gone without incident in a peaceful transition of power, the status of the ongoing National Special Security Event now becomes a question mark, Fox News reported.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Peter Gaynor oversaw the NSSE event, teaming with Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske, who Gaynor said in a statement, per Fox News, "are committed to ensuring the department's focus remains on securing the homeland while overseeing an orderly transition to the new administration."
"It has been my honor to lead the men & women safeguarding our country as the acting Secretary of DHS," Gaynor said in a statement.
The uptick in security was requested by Congress and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania departed the White House peacefully Wednesday morning and President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office.
More than 25,000 National Guard members, 14,000 law enforcement officials, and 5,000 Department of Defense employees from all 50 states, three territories, and Washington, D.C., were at the 59th presidential inauguration Wednesday, according to National Guard Bureau.
While the inauguration has concluded, there remains a potentially divisive impeachment trial looming in the coming days or weeks in the Senate.
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