President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will host the final National Christmas Tree Lighting of their administration on Thursday evening before leaving office next month.

The pair will reunite for the annual tradition on the Ellipse after Harris retreated from the public eye following her loss to President-elect Donald Trump in November and as Biden has avoided any press conference regarding his surprise blanket pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, on Sunday before jetting off to visit the West African nation Angola.

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