B Biden in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday.
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Photographer: Mark McLaughlin / Getty Images
Following weeks of inaction by the General Services Administration, Joe Biden was clearly declared the winner of Monday’s presidential election, and President Donald Trump called on his agencies and departments to cooperate.
“I’m recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to the initial protocol, and my team is asked to do the same,” Trump said of General Services Administration Chief Emily Murphy. However, he said he would continue to fight the election result.
The designation, transition initiates the formal transition process, through which Biden and his team will receive current agency officials, briefing books, some funding of 6 6 million, and other government resources.
Murphy said in a letter to Biden, citing the presidency, “Since the recent developments have involved legal challenges and certification of election results, I have decided that upon request you may access the post-election resources and services described in Article of the Act.” The Transition Act of 1963.
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This is a “necessary step” to “control the epidemic and get our economy back on track,” said Johannes Abraham, executive director of the Biden-Harris transition, in an email statement. “In the coming days, transition officials will begin meetings with federal officials to discuss the epidemic response, to keep a full account of national security interests, and to gain a full understanding of the Trump administration’s efforts to evacuate government agencies.”
For weeks, Biden’s transition team has worked informally to establish a new administration, including assembling a coronavirus task force and consulting with public health officials outside the federal government, following the approach taken by former Vice President Dick Cheney during the disputed 2000 election. Mimics.
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Federal agencies blocked from communicating with Biden’s staff Instead he sought out education, state governments and other experts on Capitol Hill.
Now the biggest change is that the Biden transition team will be able to flood federal agencies with officials focused on paving the way for its administration. They will have access to agency staff and briefing books assembled earlier this year.
“Fortunately, federal career civil servants have prepared excellent work by producing fact-based information on serious agency issues and appointing executive officers to run the agency until new political appointments are confirmed,” said David Marchik, director of the Center for Presidential Transition. “Now they need space to do their job.”
Trump praised the GSA administrator on Twitter. “I thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her unwavering dedication and dedication to her country. She’s been harassed, threatened and abused – and I don’t want to see that happen to her, her family or GSA employees. “Our case is going hard,” he wrote.
Murphy wrote earlier in the letter to CNN. “He was found online by phone, by mail and in an attempt to force security, my family, my staff and my pet,” Biden was quoted as saying. I made this decision prematurely. ”
He added that she had not been “directly or indirectly pressured by an executive branch official” to decide on the president’s transition or to set a timeline.
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