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The presidential transition of Donald Trump began when Donald Trump won the United States presidential election on November 8, 2016, and became the President-Elect. He will be formally elected by the Electoral College in December 2016. The results will be certified by a joint session of Congress in January 2017, and the transition will end when he is inaugurated at noon on January 20, 2017. |
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Governor [[Chris Christie]] of New Jersey is running the transition planning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term |title=President Trump's First Term; His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be. |author=[[Evan Osnos]] |date=September 26, 2016 |website=newyorker.com |publisher=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=September 22, 2016 |quote=September 26, 2016 issue}}</ref> |
Governor [[Chris Christie]] of New Jersey is running the transition planning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term |title=President Trump's First Term; His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be. |author=[[Evan Osnos]] |date=September 26, 2016 |website=newyorker.com |publisher=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=September 22, 2016 |quote=September 26, 2016 issue}}</ref> |
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Chairman | Chris Christie[3] |
General Counsel | Bill Palatucci[4] |
Untitled Senior Leader | Rich Bagger[3] |
Director of Appointments | William F. Hagerty |
Key people | Donald Trump |
Parent organization | Donald J. Trump for President |
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The presidential transition of Donald Trump began when Donald Trump won the United States presidential election on November 8, 2016, and became the President-Elect. He will be formally elected by the Electoral College in December 2016. The results will be certified by a joint session of Congress in January 2017, and the transition will end when he is inaugurated at noon on January 20, 2017.
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is running the transition planning.[5]
Timeline
April 2016
In April 2016, representatives from the Trump campaign, as well as the campaigns of four other then-running Republican candidates, met in New York with representatives of the Partnership for Public Service to receive a two-day briefing and overview of the transition process.[6] According to Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the campaign shortly thereafter began implementing the recommendations provided at the meeting.[7]
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May 2016
In early May 2016, after Trump became the presumptive nominee, campaign officials announced they would name the members of a presidential transition team within the "upcoming weeks". On May 6, The New York Times reported that Trump had asked Jared Kushner to begin work on putting a transition team together.[8] Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort worked with Kushner in the selection of a transition chief.[9] Three days later, Trump announced that New Jersey Governor (and former rival Presidential candidate) Chris Christie had agreed to head the effort.[10]
June 2016
On Friday, June 3, 2016, the Agency Transition Directors Council first assembled at the White House to review transition plans of each of the major executive departments; neither the Trump nor Clinton campaigns sent representatives to this initial meeting. At about the same time, the White House began transferring its preceding eight years of accumulated electronic files to the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Record Archive for preservation.[11]
July 2016
The transition planning came under heavy criticism for lagging behind other recent transition planning efforts when it was shown to have hired only a "handful" of staff by late July.[12]
In late July Chris Christie named Bill Palatucci, a corporate attorney from New Jersey and the state's Republican National Committeeman, as general counsel; Palatucci reportedly began meeting with senior members of Mitt Romney's 2012 transition team shortly thereafter.[13] Meanwhile, on July 29, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough led a conference call with Chris Christie to discuss transition procedures. During the call, McDonough informed Christie that Anita Breckenridge and Andrew Mayock will be the administration's primary "points of contact" with the Trump campaign moving forward. The pair also discussed the planned availability of office space at 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue for the Trump transition team, which the General Services Administration was to make available beginning August 2, 2016.[14]
August 2016
During the first week of August, the Trump transition office was officially opened. The same month William Hagerty, a former member of Mitt Romney's transition team, was named director of appointments while John Rader, a senior aide to United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker, was retained in the position of deputy director of appointments.[15][16]
September and October 2016
In an example of "how removed the transition process is from the tumult and rancor of the campaign", representatives of the Trump and Clinton transition teams began holding a series of meetings with each other, and with White House officials, to plan details of the transition process.[17]
By October it was reported the transition team had grown to more than 100 staff, many of whom were policy experts brought aboard to compensate for a dearth of policy staff employed by the Trump campaign.[18] For example, in October 2016, Robert Smith Walker, former chairman of the House Science Committee, was appointed space policy adviser.[19]
Transition procedures
In accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, candidate transition teams are provided office space by the General Services Administration (GSA).[20][21] Transition teams are also eligible for government funding for staff; spending on Mitt Romney's transition team in 2012 was $8.9 million, all funds appropriated by the U.S. government.[21]
Under existing federal law and custom, the Republican Party's nominee will become eligible to receive classified national security briefings once his/her nomination is formalized at the party's national convention.[22]
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of a presidential transition include the identification and vetting of candidates for approximately 4,000 non-civil service positions in the U.S. government whose service is at the pleasure of the president; arranging the occupancy of executive residences including the White House, One Observatory Circle, and Camp David; liaising with the United States Strategic Command for receipt of the Gold Codes; and briefing senior civil service personnel about a new administration's policy priorities.
Recent developments
A law enacted by the United States Congress in 2016 requires the incumbent President to establish "transition councils" by June of an election year to facilitate the eventual handover of power.[22]
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), meanwhile, launched a new program called "Transition 2016" in 2016. Led by Ed DeSeve and David S. C. Chu, the program was described by NAPA as one which provide management and procedural advice to the leading candidates in establishing transition teams.[23]
See also
- Planned presidential transition of Hillary Clinton
- Planned presidential transition of Mitt Romney
- Presidential transition of Barack Obama
References
- ^ "With only one possible winner, Trump and Clinton build White House transition team". Fox News. 7 August 2016.
- ^ Jackson, Herb (26 June 2016). "Jackson: Transition teams get a head start on the White House". The Record (Bergen County). USA Today. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Trump transition tests outsider's governing ability". WAFF-TV. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ "Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Campaigns Invited to White House Transition Meetings". TIME Magazine. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ Evan Osnos (September 26, 2016). "President Trump's First Term; His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be". newyorker.com. The New Yorker. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
September 26, 2016 issue
- ^ Davis, Julie Hirschfeld (April 20, 2016). "In an Age of Terror, an Early Start on the Presidential Transition". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
- ^ Keane, Angela (May 6, 2016). "Trump Campaign Upends the Science of Presidential Transition". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
- ^ Parker, Ashley (May 6, 2016). "Trump Asks Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner, to Plan for Transition Team". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ^ Watkins, Eli (May 6, 2016). "Report: Trump asks son-in-law to help prepare for White House transition". CNN. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
- ^ O'Donnell, Kelly (May 9, 2016). "Donald Trump Taps Chris Christie to Lead Transition Team". NBC News. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ^ "White House initiates transition planning with meetings, data transfers". Federal News Radio. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ Peoples, Steve (29 July 2016). "Huge task of creating transition team will test Trump's ability to govern". Portland Press Herald. AP. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Sherman, Jake (31 July 2016). "EXCLUSIVE -- TRUMP starts building transition committee". Politico. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Wheaton, Sarah (29 July 2016). "White House talks transition with both campaigns". Politico. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Rogin, Josh (3 August 2016). "Top Corker aide joins Trump transition team". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "With only one possible winner, Trump and Clinton build White House transition team". FOX News. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ Viebeck, Elsie (29 October 2016). "White House meets with Clinton, Trump transition teams as election approaches". Washington Post. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ "Trump transition trying to raise $100,000". Politico. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (October 27, 2016). "Election only the start of a long-term NASA transition". SpaceNews. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ Parker, Ashley (August 16, 2012). "Campaigning Aside, Team Plans a Romney Presidency". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ a b Fund, John (January 13, 2013). "What was Romney Planning?". National Review. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ a b Berman, Russell (March 1, 2016). "Congress Tells Obama to Start Planning His Departure". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
- ^ "Academy Launches Presidential Transition 2016 Initiative". National Academy of Public Administration. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
