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Planning for the '''presidential transition of Donald Trump''', led by the Vice President-elect, Governor [[Mike Pence]] of Indiana<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> (formally by [[Chris Christie]] until November 10–11) began before [[Donald Trump]] won the United States [[United States presidential election, 2016|presidential election]] on November 8, 2016, and became the [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]].
Planning for the '''presidential transition of Donald Trump''', led by the Vice President-elect, Governor [[Mike Pence]] of Indiana<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> (formally by [[Chris Christie]] until November 10–11) began before [[Donald Trump]] won the United States [[United States presidential election, 2016|presidential election]] on November 8, 2016, and became the [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]].


He will be formally elected by the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] on December 19, 2016. The results will be certified by a joint session of [[United States Congress|Congress]] in January 2017, and the transition will end when he is [[Inauguration of Donald Trump|inaugurated]] at noon on January 20, 2017.
Trump is expected to be elected by the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] on December 19, 2016. However, electors remain free to cast their votes for the candidate who won the popular vote, Hillary Clinton<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/clintons-substantial-popular-vote-win.html</ref>, making this result as yet uncertain. <ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/electoral-college-rogue-electors-43323385</ref>The results will be certified by a joint session of [[United States Congress|Congress]] in January 2017, and the transition will end when he is [[Inauguration of Donald Trump|inaugurated]] at noon on January 20, 2017.

Trump's transition to power despite his loss of the popular vote by a "substantial margin"<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/clintons-substantial-popular-vote-win.html</ref> to Hillary Clinton has "sparked" massive protests nationwide, drawing international attention. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/anti-donald-trump-protests-new-york-chicago-san-francisco</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics/election-results-reaction-streets/index.html</ref>Many of the protestors claim that the will of the people has been ignored, and that "Trump is not my president.". <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/</ref>. Some protestors have cited the numerous allegations against Trump of sexual assault, and his remarks about women ("I grab them by the pussy") as the reason for their protest, while others have drawn comparisons between Trump's post-transition promises to create deportation forces and ban Muslim travel and mandate religious identification cards and the early resettlement and racial identification policies of Nazi Germany, which eventually ended in the [[Holocaust]]. <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics/election-results-reaction-streets/index.html</ref> Protests are planned to continue at least through Trump's inauguration <ref>http://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/massive-anti-trump-protest-planned-inauguration-day-dc</ref> Certain other pro-Trump groups are planning large victory parades in celebration of the transition, such as the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. <ref>http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-updates-trail-guide-kkk-trump-north-carolina-1478822255-htmlstory.html</ref>. Trump reacted to the nationwide protests by opining that the protesters are "professional protestors, incited by the media" and complained the mass protests against him are "Very unfair!", leading some to fear that Trump's retaliation against protesters would be swift, post-transition. <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics/kellyanne-conway-protesters-donald-trump-2016-election/</ref>


==Transition procedures==
==Transition procedures==

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Planning for the presidential transition of Donald Trump, led by the Vice President-elect, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana[6] (formally by Chris Christie until November 10–11) began before Donald Trump won the United States presidential election on November 8, 2016, and became the President-elect.

Trump is expected to be elected by the Electoral College on December 19, 2016. However, electors remain free to cast their votes for the candidate who won the popular vote, Hillary Clinton[7], making this result as yet uncertain. [8]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.

Trump's transition to power despite his loss of the popular vote by a "substantial margin"[9] to Hillary Clinton has "sparked" massive protests nationwide, drawing international attention. [10][11]Many of the protestors claim that the will of the people has been ignored, and that "Trump is not my president.". [12]. Some protestors have cited the numerous allegations against Trump of sexual assault, and his remarks about women ("I grab them by the pussy") as the reason for their protest, while others have drawn comparisons between Trump's post-transition promises to create deportation forces and ban Muslim travel and mandate religious identification cards and the early resettlement and racial identification policies of Nazi Germany, which eventually ended in the Holocaust. [13] Protests are planned to continue at least through Trump's inauguration [14] Certain other pro-Trump groups are planning large victory parades in celebration of the transition, such as the Ku Klux Klan. [15]. Trump reacted to the nationwide protests by opining that the protesters are "professional protestors, incited by the media" and complained the mass protests against him are "Very unfair!", leading some to fear that Trump's retaliation against protesters would be swift, post-transition. [16]

Transition procedures

Main article: United States presidential transition

In accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, candidate transition teams are provided office space by the General Services Administration (GSA).[17][18] 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.[18]

Under existing federal law and custom, the Republican Party's nominee became eligible to receive classified national security briefings once his/her nomination was formalized at the party's national convention.[19]

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.[19]

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.[20]

Timeline

Pre-election

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.[21] According to Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the campaign shortly thereafter began implementing the recommendations provided at the meeting.[22] 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.[23] Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort worked with Kushner in the selection of a transition chief.[24] Three days later, Trump announced that New Jersey Governor (and former rival Presidential candidate) Chris Christie had agreed to head the effort.[25]

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.[26]

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.[27] 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.[28] 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.[29]

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.[30][31]

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.[32]

Chart showing agency appointment group leads of the Trump transition.

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.[33] For example, in October 2016, Robert Smith Walker, former chairman of the House Science Committee, was appointed space policy adviser.[34]

Post-election

A November 9 memo from Ash Carter to the United States armed forces informed them of the pending transfer of military command.

In the early hours of November 9, 2016, media outlets reported Trump would secure enough votes in the Electoral College to be chosen 45th president of the United States. Hillary Clinton conceded the election later that day.

Security enhancements

Prior to Trump's return to his private residence at Trump Tower, the United States Secret Service initiated "unbelievable security measures", including closing East 56th Street to all traffic, reinforcing a cordon of sand-laden dump trucks that had been placed around the building the night before to defend the site from being rammed with a car bomb, and deploying New York City Police Department tactical teams around the skyscraper. The FAA, meanwhile, ordered a flight restriction over midtown Manhattan.[35][36][37]

Trump and Obama met for the first time on November 10.

Procedures and protocol

Shortly after noon on November 9, outgoing president Barack Obama made a statement from the Rose Garden of the White House in which he announced that he had spoken, the previous evening, with Trump and formally invited him to the White House the next day, November 10, for discussions to ensure "that there is a successful transition between our presidencies". President Obama said he had instructed his staff to "follow the example" of the George W. Bush administration in 2008, whom he said could "not have been more professional or more gracious in making sure we had a smooth transition".[38]

The same day, United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter issued a memo to the United States armed forces informing them of the pending transfer of National Command Authority to a new administration.[39] Also on November 9, the U.S. Intelligence Community began providing the full President's Daily Brief to Trump and Mike Pence.[40]

The Trump transition website launched on the evening of November 9, 2016

By the afternoon of November 9, a U.S. government website - greatagain.gov - had been launched. The website provided information on transition procedures and information for the media.[41] Policy aspects of the Trump transition program are organized into two substantive components: government transformation, and appointments. These are under the supervision of Ron Nicol as director of agency action. An appointments lead has been designated for each department or agency of the federal government; these, in turn, are grouped into five functional areas: Defense (including the United States Department of Defense and United States Department of Veterans Affairs), National Security (including the United States State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. National Security Council, and others), Domestic Issues, Economic Issues, and Management and Budget. Each functional group is also headed by a designated lead.[41]

Michelle Obama has tea with Melania Trump in the Yellow Oval Room on November 10.

At 11:00 a.m. on November 10, Trump and Obama held a private, 90-minute meeting at the White House, which was followed by a joint media availability in the Oval Office with a press pool composed of journalists from Reuters, Voice of America, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, ABC News, and McClatchey syndicate. During the availability, Trump thanked Obama for their meeting and said he looked forward to tapping him for future counsel.[42]

On November 11 it was announced that Trump had dismissed Chris Christie from his role as transition head, replacing him with the incoming vice-president Mike Pence. According to Politico, Trump made the move due to Christie's involvement with the Bridgegate scandal; a transition staffer said "he'll still be around" when asked about Christie's future with the incoming administration, what Politico characterized as "hardly a ringing endorsement".[43]

Transition team

File:Ken Blackwell.jpg
Former Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell is among the members of the Trump transition team.

See also

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