Less than 8 months from Joe Biden would take over the Presidency if he was to win November ‘s general election for President?
Joe Biden has formed a transition team to handle what would be his taking over the running of the American government from the Trump admin….The Trump admin has a team formed up also…It is led by Trump’s current Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
The action is actually part of the law.…
There are usually less than. 80 days between the general election and the assuming of the Presidency by the winner…
With the staff shortages and failure to follow past traditions, rules and even laws?
Joe Biden’s people will have a busy time….
While President Donald Trump eagerly returns to the campaign trail, Joe Biden is building out a team with an eye toward governing.
Ted Kaufman, one of Biden’s longest-serving advisers, has tapped a half-dozen government veterans to work with him as part of a formal transition operation that has been established independent of the Biden campaign, officials involved with the process told NBC News.
Kaufman described the work as in “the very early stages,” and part of an effort to “ensure continuity of government during such a critical moment for our country.”
“The next president will confront an ongoing global health pandemic and inherit an economy in its worst shape since the Great Depression. No one will have taken office facing such daunting obstacles since Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” Kaufman said in a statement. “Joe Biden is prepared to meet these urgent challenges on the day he is sworn in as president, and begin the hard work of addressing the public health crisis and rebuilding an economy that puts working families first.”
As Biden’s appointed replacement in the Senate for two years after he resigned to become vice president, Kaufman helped write the legislation to formalize transition planning, imposing specific requirements both on the current administration and presidential candidates to take such steps. The legislation was informed by his work as part of the Obama-Biden transition team in 2008.
The Trump administration has quietly established its own Transition Council, led by chief of staff Mark Meadows. A separate Agency Transition Directors Council, led by officials from the Office and Budget and Management and the General Services Administration, was scheduled to hold its first meeting in late May.
For the Biden team, Yohannes Abraham has signed on to manage day-to-day operations, with Avril Haines coming on to help policy and agency review teams and herself lead the national security and foreign policy team….
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By Sep. 1, the Biden team will gain access to federal resources including funding and a dedicated office space to allow them to more significantly ramp up the transition planning…
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He [ Ted Kaufman] said then he hoped Trump’s team would be as cooperative in managing a possible transition as President George W. Bush was for Obama.
“I doubt it, but I hope so,” he said
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