Biden’s use of the word “oligarchy” was no accident — it’s a direct reference to the form of government in Russia, whose leader Trump has long spoken warmly about.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, accused Biden of running an “administration of oligarchies” by forcing large corporations to censor free speech and violate 1st Amendment rights, quoting the decision by social media to de-platform Trump.

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that American flags at the Capitol will fly at full-mast on Inauguration Day — despite a presidential order that they be kept at half-staff to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter.

Congress last year, in a law signed by Biden, required that TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance divest the company by Jan. 19, a day before the presidential inauguration. The official said the outgoing administration was leaving the implementation of the law — and the potential enforcement of the ban — to Trump.

The Biden administration doesn't plan to take action that forces TikTok to immediately go dark for U.S. users on Sunday, an administration official told ABC News.

President Joe Biden will make a farewell address on Wednesday night, ahead of president-elect Donald Trump’s official inauguration this coming Monday. The final remarks, a long-running tradition for departing presidents in the U.

U.S. President Joe Biden gave his "farewell address" to mark the end of his presidency, which concludes with the inauguration of Donald Trump this coming Monday. In his speech, Biden called it the conclusion of 50 years of public service,