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On Friday, Dagbladet partner Decision Desk HQ announced Joe Biden as the winner of the US presidential election. The next day various media followed.
Biden has already started work. This weekend, he and future Vice President Kamala Harris launched the transition website BuildBackBetter.com, highlighting their issues.
The four key points, with which they want to start from day one, are: covid-19, economy, justice for all races and climate.
At the same time, Donald Trump refuses to accept the result of the elections. He claims election fraud has been committed and has filed lawsuits in various states. He has announced that he will take the case to the Supreme Court.
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Signature missing
While Trump and his Republican friends do not acknowledge the outcome of the election, a more unknown woman gets into the wheels of Biden’s transition to the White House.
He will not be able to begin work as the new president without the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), Emily Murphy, signing the document that grants him and his team a number of important accesses.
Write the Washington Post.
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Since 1963, the GSA has been a central part of the transfer of power in American elections, and the agency generally responds quickly. After a few hours, no later than one day, after the media has announced the winner, GSA has signed the decisive document.
This is seen as the “kickoff” for a new president. This usually occurs after the losing candidate has given his speech, indicating that both parties have accepted the outcome of the election. In 2016, this happened on the morning of November 9, the day after the elections.
Trump: – We will win
– Does not select the winner
Now he awaits the signature of Murphy, who was appointed by Trump.
Therefore, Biden is not allowed to use government offices to discuss secret information, nor is he allowed to check the backgrounds of candidates for jobs in his administration, writes The New York Times.
He will also not have access to the federal funds, $ 6.6 million, to which he is entitled.
“No decision has been made,” GSA spokeswoman Pamela D. Pennington said in a statement.
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In a previous statement, Pennington said that “the head of the GSA does not choose the winner of the election” and that “the head of the GSA makes the decision as soon as a winner is ready, based on the process adopted by the constitution.” .
Every day that passes without Murphy’s signature leads to the new administration ending up behind the form, writes the Washington Post.
“The transition process is crucial to ensuring the next team is ready to go from day one,” Max Stier, who heads the Association for Public Service, an organization that works for more efficient government, told the Washington Post.
Biden: – He’s not critical
According to the NY Times, Biden’s people are investigating ways to force Murphy’s signature by going to court so the transition can begin.
At a press conference on Tuesday night Norwegian time, Joe Biden says that access to information and money would be useful, but that absence does not stop him in any way.
– Access to classified information is useful, but not critical. Trump is president until January 20. We will continue as planned, so not much has changed. I don’t see the need to go to court for this, he says.
Democrat Gerald E. Connolly, who leads one of the House oversight groups, is tough on Murphy.
– The behavior shows his submission to the president. It is clearly detrimental to the transfer of power, he says.
Democrat Jen Psaki, the former White House communications chief, urged Murphy to sign a Twitter message Sunday.
– Now that the election has independently announced Joe Biden, we expect the GSA chief to quickly establish Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president and vice president-elect, he wrote, and followed up:
– The security policy and economic interests of the United States depend on the federal government clearly and promptly indicating that the United States government will respect the will of the American people and participate in a peaceful transfer of power.
Voter Fraud Claims – We Know
Murphy receives support
It is also not the first time that a recount has been conducted in various states, after a new president has been announced, without first affecting the GSA.
In 2004, there were reports in New Hampshire and Ohio, and by then the GSA had already made a decision, writes the New York Times. The same thing happened in 2016.
A former GSA attorney, Robert C. MacKichan jr., Tells the Washington Post that he understands why Murphy is waiting to sign, given that Trump is contesting the election.
He points out that the funds that will later be available to Biden cannot be recovered again if Trump wins with his accusations.
Emily Murphy has been a director of the GSA since December 2017.
If he doesn’t sign soon, experts fear the Washington Post has spoken that this could be the second postponed transition period for an American president in modern times. The last time was after the 2000 election, when George W. Bush was installed as president after the Supreme Court rejected a recount in Florida.
