The White House Will Be Shedding Its Union Label
Raw Story - The former and now-incoming president has yet to submit a legally required pledge to avoid ethical conflicts of interest. And because he has yet to do so, this means no one on his transition team can physically access the 438 different federal agencies between now and January 20. Additionally, neither Trump nor his team can get security clearances from President Joe Biden's administration needed to have national security briefings and access classified national intelligence.
This requirement was included in a 2019 amendment to the bipartisan Presidential Transition Act, which lays out the complex process in which an outgoing administration assists the incoming president with the transition of power. The Times noted that the law was "born in part out of concerns about ethical issues during the first Trump administration."
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