As the Trump administration continues standing in the way of the Biden transition team, aides to the president-elect will be meeting with congressional committee staffers in an effort to get up to speed on important issues, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The news of the planned meetings is the latest example of how the Biden team is finding ways around a stumbling block put forward by the Trump administration to bar administration officials from cooperating with Biden’s team and providing much needed transition information and resources to the incoming administration as Trump continues to fume over his loss.
Without formal access to career government officials and the transition resources they have prepared, Biden’s team is moving forward with alternative routes and its meetings with relevant congressional committees, which will likely offer help in providing direct knowledge about the wide-ranging agencies they oversee.
The WSJ reported that while transition aides are planning to meet with Democratic staff on those committees, it was unclear if GOP staff would also be involved.
Vowing during his first formal address as President-elect to make combating coronavirus his top priority, the President-elect has also circumvented efforts by HHS Secretary Alex Azar to prohibit cooperation from officials in his department with the Biden team by consulting with outside health experts about the coronavirus.
The news of the pending meetings follows an earlier report that the Biden transition team has also been in touch with a handful of current and recently-departed Trump administration officials who have stepped forward to offer insight in spite of efforts by the administration to stall transition.
That’s right, kids, it’s true, our country is falling apart, a thousand dying every day, millions out of work, the economy on life support, schools are closed, and our reputation Around the world is trashed.
But you would have been so proud of me in that one glorious moment when I stood up to Hillary and voted my conscience!
What a rush! and I still think it was all worth it.
So glad that Biden is using his knowledge from participating in two Transitions already to figure out what to do here, and that he’s doing it. It’s one thing making me feel slightly better.
(only slightly. but it all helps.)
To a lot of folks Uncle Joe was a compromise
Given what we are dealing with today
I am more convinced he THE person for our times.
Bonus
I am sure VP elect is in a take no prisoners mood.
One does what one can.
It is very good that we have a very experience politician and team behind him running this…a newcomer might have a lot more difficulty figuring out how to deal with a situation that has never happened before. Trump’s sabotage of the Biden administration is going to go down as one of the worst actions of a president in our history, and just cement him as our worst president.
We just better hope that Biden is able to get through all of the interference and make it to the presidency, otherwise Trump may just be our last president before the Republican Christian theocracy is installed.