President Biden and his wife Jill have welcomed Donald Trump and Melania to the White House. They will sit down for tea, before heading to the Capitol.
It’s the first time the pair have met today.
Tech billionaires, cabinet nominees and former presidents are at the ceremony in the rotunda of the US Capitol, which was moved indoors for the first time in decades due to the bitter cold.
Trump is set to declare a “national emergency” at the US-Mexico border, declare some drug cartels as terrorists, and scrap government diversity programmes.
But he won’t announce day one tariffs, an official said.
Ahead of Trump entering office, Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for several figures “threatened with criminal prosecutions”, including Dr Anthony Fauci and officers who testified over the Capitol riot.
