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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4675895" data-attributes="member: 18222">Yeah!I just saw that on the news and Biden&#039;s team is POed.<h3><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gsa-letter-biden-transition/2020/11/08/07093acc-21e9-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html" target="_blank">A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn’t budging</a></h3>The administrator of the General Services Administration, the low-profile agency in charge of federal buildings, has a little-known role when a new president is elected: to sign paperwork officially turning over millions of dollars, as well as give access to government officials, office space in agencies and equipment authorized for the taxpayer-funded transition teams of the winner.It amounts to a formal declaration by the federal government, outside of the media, of the winner of the presidential race.But by Sunday evening, almost 36 hours after media outlets projected Biden as the winner, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy had written no such letter. And the Trump administration, in keeping with the president’s failure to concede the election, has no immediate plans to sign one. This could lead to the first transition delay in modern history, except in 2000, when the Supreme Court decided a recount dispute between Al Gore and George W. Bush in December.Another senior administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly said each agency has drafted detailed transition plans for a new administration, but they will not be released to the Biden team until a winner is formally declared.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4675895, member: 18222"] Yeah! I just saw that on the news and Biden's team is POed. [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gsa-letter-biden-transition/2020/11/08/07093acc-21e9-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html'][SIZE=5]A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn’t budging[/SIZE][/URL][/HEADING] The administrator of the General Services Administration, the low-profile agency in charge of federal buildings, has a little-known role when a new president is elected: [B]to sign paperwork officially turning over millions of dollars, as well as give access to government officials[/B], office space in agencies and equipment authorized for the taxpayer-funded transition teams of the winner. It amounts to a formal declaration by the federal government, outside of the media, of the winner of the presidential race. But by Sunday evening, almost 36 hours after media outlets projected Biden as the winner, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy had written no such letter. And the Trump administration, in keeping with the president’s failure to concede the election, has no immediate plans to sign one. This could lead to the first transition delay in modern history, [B][U]except in 2000,[/U][/B] when the Supreme Court decided a recount dispute between Al Gore and George W. Bush in December. Another senior administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly said each agency has drafted detailed transition plans for a new administration, but they will not be released to the Biden team until a winner is formally declared. [/QUOTE]

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