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CNN: GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin
(CNN)The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump's defeat, more than two weeks after Biden was declared the winner in the election.
The letter signals that Murphy will formally sign off on Biden's victory, a normally perfunctory process known as ascertainment. The move will allow the transition to officially begin, permitting current administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team, and providing millions in government funding for the transition.
The move toward ascertainment comes after Michigan formally certified its election results on Monday and Georgia certified its razor-thin presidential results on Friday. Pennsylvania is nearing certification of its election results, too.
It's the latest sign that Trump's conspiracy-laden legal bid, led by Rudy Giuliani, to circumvent the outcome of the election is nearing an end. The Trump campaign's lawsuits to delay certification of the election have been dismissed in multiple states, as his legal team has failed to provide any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
But until now, Murphy had refused to move forward with the ascertainment process, despite Biden's clear victory, locking the President-elect's team out of speaking with federal agencies. Murphy, a Trump political appointee, has faced intense scrutiny and political pressure from Democrats and, in recent days, Republicans calling for the start of a smooth transition. In a statement Monday, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, said that "there is no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state" and called on the transition process to begin.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html
The letter signals that Murphy will formally sign off on Biden's victory, a normally perfunctory process known as ascertainment. The move will allow the transition to officially begin, permitting current administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team, and providing millions in government funding for the transition.
The move toward ascertainment comes after Michigan formally certified its election results on Monday and Georgia certified its razor-thin presidential results on Friday. Pennsylvania is nearing certification of its election results, too.
It's the latest sign that Trump's conspiracy-laden legal bid, led by Rudy Giuliani, to circumvent the outcome of the election is nearing an end. The Trump campaign's lawsuits to delay certification of the election have been dismissed in multiple states, as his legal team has failed to provide any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
But until now, Murphy had refused to move forward with the ascertainment process, despite Biden's clear victory, locking the President-elect's team out of speaking with federal agencies. Murphy, a Trump political appointee, has faced intense scrutiny and political pressure from Democrats and, in recent days, Republicans calling for the start of a smooth transition. In a statement Monday, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, said that "there is no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state" and called on the transition process to begin.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html
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and it begins. I'm crying!!!!
GSA authorizes money for them to lease office space in the area to house the transition staff (including phone lines and network access as well as furniture, etc) and should authorize access for the clearances, but I expect that 45 will still try to impede other transitional briefings because that is how he rolls. 
Maybe the Orange Anus is almost through with his tantrum and we can get on with the work of rebuilding this country.
I raise my glass of Blue Nun! 
Don Julio Blanco
TY BRDS!! 
time Now! PA
They tweeted the signature page too!
Link to tweet
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Philadelphia City Commissioners
@PhillyVotes
We just completed signing Philadelphia's certification of the 2020 Presidential Election
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7:04 PM · Nov 23, 2020 from Philadelphia, PA
@PhillyVotes
We just completed signing Philadelphia's certification of the 2020 Presidential Election
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7:04 PM · Nov 23, 2020 from Philadelphia, PA
(have to slide the slider back to the beginning to see the beginning of the meeting since they must have reserved more time so the feed is still showing as "live" but they are done, so the link shows the end)
PA is Done.. right?!
Rt.. TY, BRDS!
We the People win again! 