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Donald Trump has yet to recognize Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Most Republicans in the Senate join the charade. But some of the party’s central figures are now urging the White House to give Joe Biden access to classified security information, an indirect recognition of Biden as the winner.
The handover of the presidency it is a huge bureaucratic apparatus. The incoming administration will fill some 4,000 political positions, assume the personnel responsibilities of two million civil servants and another two million Americans who serve in the military. A budget of $ 4.7 billion will be prepared.
This handover process usually begins with an authority, the General Services Administration, recognizing the winner and thus freeing up state and local funds specially adapted for the handling of classified information and access to databases. And the incoming president gives access to the daily intelligence material called President’s Daily Summary, secret information collected in the early morning for the president to defend the United States and the interests of the country in the world.
Since at least 1968 Incoming presidents have had to read the president’s daily summary to be ready on January 20, when the change of government occurs.
But out of respect for Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the election result, the General Services Administration has yet to recognize Joe Biden as the next president. A nation’s security risk that “could have serious implications,” writes the New York Times in a headline.
Several Republicans seem to share that risk analysis. Although the party is behind Trump’s attempt to prove voter fraud, several individual Republican senators and governors now say that Biden should have access to security-sealed information.
An indirect recognition, perhaps, of Joe Biden as the next president of the country.
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Republican Chuck Grassley, Nestor, 87, of the Senate and chairman of its powerful finance committee, says Biden should have access to intelligence information.
Lindsey Graham, the man closest to the president in the Senate, believes so too.
A Republican senator from Oklahoma, James Lankford, said in a radio interview Wednesday that he intended to step in and “push” unless Biden was notified later this week.
“Regardless of who wins the election in the end, the people must be able to be up to the task,” said James Lankford.
Senate majority 53 Republicans have yet to officially congratulate Biden on the victory. But maybe Trump is running out of time.
According to the New York Times, Chuck Grassley has set a deadline for when Trump must “come to terms” – December 13, the day before electoral votes formally designate Biden as the next president of the United States.
That could mean another month of unfounded allegations from the White House about voter fraud before the party tries to silence the president.
Several times a day Trump asks his constituents for money to “defend the election result.”
But most of the money donated to the “electoral defense fund” actually goes to an account linked to Save America, a campaign organization dedicated to Trump’s political future.
That may be the way to understand Trump’s election fraud allegations. As a basis for a future political career. But the show is far from risk-free, as Republicans know.
