The Jan. 20, 2025, ceremony, which will mark the peaceful transfer of power from the Biden administration to the second Trump administration, will be attended by President Joe Biden. However, some other Democrats are less certain if they will attend.

Two swing-state Democrats, Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA), have told USA Today that they plan to attend the ceremony, with both discussing it as a responsibility. Kelly and Ossoff represent states that Trump won last month, and Ossoff will be one of the most vulnerable incumbent Democratic senators up for reelection in 2026.

Some Democrats said they would celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which falls on Inauguration Day in 2025, differently. Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Judy Chu (D-CA) told the outlet that was how they would spend Jan. 20.

As Inauguration Day nears, the list of who is going and who is not going is becoming clear, as several Democrats told the outlet they had not made up their mind on what they would be doing on Jan. 20.

Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration in 2021, opting to leave the White House and Washington, D.C., in the morning before the ceremony. Besides Trump, it has been customary for the outgoing president to attend the incoming president’s inauguration, as Biden will do for Trump’s ceremony next month.

Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 was attended by former President Barack Obama, but several House Democrats boycotted the ceremony. Then-Rep. John Lewis was one of the Democrats who led the boycott.

The House Democrats who boycotted the 2017 ceremony included Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), among dozens of others. Chu, who said she would not go to Trump’s 2025 inauguration, was part of the boycott of his 2017 ceremony.

Trump’s invitations to the inauguration have gone beyond domestic politics, with the president-elect sending an invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who reportedly has declined the invite.

The presidential inauguration is typically attended by living former presidents. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama have not indicated if they will attend the ceremony, but all three attended both the 2017 and 2021 inaugurations.

Former President Jimmy Carter, 100, who has been in hospice care since February 2023, will not be attending the ceremony, the Carter Center told the outlet, due to his health.