Trump Signs Off on Post-Election Transition Deal with Biden White House

An agreement that has been overdue and is meant to help smooth the transition between incoming and outgoing administrations will be signed by President-elect Donald Trump with the former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House. The deal will be signed with less than two months remaining until his inauguration.

In a statement released on Tuesday, incoming chief of staff for President Trump, Susie Wiles, said “the president-elect is entering the next phase of his administration’s transition by executing a Memorandum of Understanding with President Joe Biden’s White House,” now that Trump’s Cabinet choices have been made.

“By doing this activity, our intended Cabinet nominees will be able to initiate crucial preparations, such as the deployment of landing teams to each and every department and agency, and finish the transition of power in an orderly fashion,” Wiles said.

Two agreements

A presidential candidate’s access to government agencies and an ethical code were to be established by the end of October, according to the agreement reached with the White House.

By September 1st, an agreement had to be reached with the United States General Services Administration in order to obtain transition funds, office space, and other resources offered by the government.

As stipulated in the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 and its changes that were made as recent as 2019, the listed elements are mandatory. Nominees have to disclose all transition fundraising dollars, which are segregated from campaign cash, as a condition condition of the agreements and the funding they let loose. The regulation caps the amount that can be contributed to transitions by individuals at $5,000.

The money used in the transition of the presidency usually consists of a mixture of private funding and dollars set aside by the federal government. According to reports by the Centre for Presidential Transition, Congress allocated approximately a little less than twenty million dollars for the 2020 and 2021 years.

In response to a request from States Newsroom, the Trump-Vance team did not release any additional sections of the agreement that they had reached with the White House.

A request for a date by which transition contributions will be made public was not met with a response from the transition team.

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A seven-point bullet point summary of the transition agreement with the White House was included in the statement that Wiles made on Tuesday. The summary states that, in order to “save taxpayers’ hard-earned money,” Trump’s team will fund its transition entirely through private contributions, and they will eventually release the list of contributors.

It was also claimed by Trump’s team that they will establish itself as a “self-sufficient organisation” rather than utilising any government buildings or technology that is available for transition operations.

Working from Florida

Meetings and announcements of Cabinet nominees have been taking place at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the president-elect and his staff currently live. “Trump Vance 2025 Transition, Inc.” is the moniker that appears on the website of the General Services Administration (GSA) where the team’s code of ethical behaviour was published on Tuesday.

On the news statement issued by President-elect Trump on Tuesday about the ethical plan for a transition agreement between Trump and Vance, “it shall meet the requirements for persons to move into the Trump Administration in a seamless fashion.”

The law requires publication of the ethics plan so that it is made publicly available. It must also be revealed if there are lobbyists or foreign agents who will be a part of the transition team. Additionally, other conflicts of interest among the participants should be known. Also, there must be a promise to maintain confidentiality over the non public government information and to not gain personally over the inside information that the person would acquire during the transition.

In response to a request from States Newsroom, the Trump-Vance team did not release any additional sections of the agreement that they had reached with the White House.

A request for a date by which transition contributions will be made public was not met with a response from the transition team.