The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, adorned in 5,000 LED lights and 10,000 hand-made ornaments, lit up the skies in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night during a ceremony to ring-in the 2024 holiday season.

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Speaker Mike Johnson helped light up the 80-foot Sitka Spruce tree from Alaska for the 60th annual lighting ceremony.

Rose Burke, a 9-year-old Alaska student, won the special honor of lighting the Capitol Christmas Tree on Dec. 3.

On Tuesday night, the 80-foot-tall Christmas tree on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol was lit, marking another sign of the unofficial start of the holiday season. The tree, which was driven by two truck drivers from Alaska,

The only other Capitol Christmas Tree to come from Alaska was taken from the Chugach National Forest in 2015. A fourth grader from Kenai, Rose Burke, also attended the ceremony alongside U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.