Biden Transition Moves Quickly After Trump Agrees to Share Resources
WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden is moving quickly to take advantage of government resources for his transition to the White House after the Trump administration ended a 16-day stalemate and announced its intention to begin cooperating with his team.
Mr. Biden’s advisers are making plans to meet with career officials at executive agencies to review hundreds of pages of briefing materials and get up to speed on the inner workings of the federal government. Transition officials began reaching out to agency officials on Monday night, immediately after the Trump administration said it would begin working with the president-elect’s team, a transition official said.
The president-elect’s advisers said they expect to make responding to the coronavirus pandemic a priority. They plan to quickly set up meetings with senior officials at the Health and Human Services Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other agencies, to discuss vaccine distribution and other Covid-19 priorities.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the department’s top transition official was in communication with Mr. Biden’s team on Monday night, and he emphasized the need for a “professional, cooperative and collaborative” transfer of power to address the challenges posed by the pandemic.
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