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The General Services Administration (GSA) on Monday recognized Joe Biden as the winner of the US presidential election after weeks of inertia, and President Donald Trump called on his agencies and departments to cooperate. .
“I recommend that Emily and her team do whatever it takes regarding the initial protocols, and I told my team to do the same,” Trump said, referring to Emily Murphy, director of the General Services Administration.
Murphy said the government is making federal resources available for the transition of power. In a letter to Biden, Murphy said his decision frees up more than $ 7 million in federal funding for this process. Biden’s team was already fundraising after Election Day and was on track to achieve its fundraising goals.
The announcement is a “necessary step” to “get the pandemic under control and our economy back on track,” Yohannes Abraham, executive director of the Biden-Harris transition team, said in an emailed statement.
“In the coming days, transitional authorities will begin meeting with federal authorities to discuss a response to the pandemic, have a full explanation of our national security interests, and gain a full understanding of the Trump administration’s efforts to empty the agencies. government, ”Abraham said.
Murphy’s decision was revealed minutes before President Donald Trump tweeted that he approved the measure. Yet Trump still refused to explicitly award the victory to Biden, who is expected to garner 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232.
Trump falsely claimed that he won the election “by a long shot” and promoted a variety of conspiracies alleging widespread electoral fraud without evidence.
Trump’s campaign lawyers, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, have filed lawsuits in many of the key swing states that helped put Biden at the top of the election. Most of these actions, which asked the judges to block the certification of the final vote counts, have been rejected by the courts.
“Today’s decision is a necessary step to begin to meet the challenges our country requires, including controlling the pandemic and recovering our economy,” Biden’s transition team said in a statement. “This final decision is a final administrative action to formally begin the transition process with federal agencies.”
