'It would serve as a national expression of grief so needed by everyone in our country,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a letter to President Donald Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday, asking that flags be flown at half-staff when the nation's death toll from the new coronavirus reaches 100,000.
There is no known record that the U.S. flag was lowered to half-staff to honor victims of a pandemic, including the Spanish Flu that ravaged the world from 1918 to 1920. On April 3, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy requested all flags lowered to half-staff immediately and indefinitely to honor all who have died from coronavirus in New Jersey.So far, Trump has not said publicly if he will follow through with Pelosi and Schumer's request to lower flags nationwide to mourn the first 100,000 who've died of the new coronavirus.
Flags are typically lowered to half-staff during a time of national mourning, and in most cases is done to honor the death of a national official, first responders, or on Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor the military members killed in the defense of the country.
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