But his transition is already under way, and with tonight's concession by Mr. Gore, Mr. Bush will now have use of the $5 million transition budget and a large office blocks from the White House.
On Tuesday, Mr. McGreevey said that an intensive review of New Jersey's finances by his transition budget director had found a looming shortfall of $1.9 billion in the current budget and projected a $3.7 billion shortfall in next year's.
While the ClASS framework revealed strengths and shortcomings, 'there was no transition budget' (IP1) for making recommended changes.
Yet, all we hear from the Coalition and ALP is the need to transition the budget back to surplus as this represents "fiscal responsibility", while treating private debt as a no-go zone.
It is true that the transition from budget surpluses at the end of the 1990s to deficits today did involve some significant increases in spending, some of it on two foreign wars and the prescription drug plan that was added to Medicare under President George W. Bush.
The indirect costs will focus, for example, on deadweight, cream-skimming, displacement, substitution, wage, locking-in, stigmatizing, skill-acquisition, asymmetric information, competition, threat, transition, screening, budget and benefit churning effects.
Construction projects usually slow during the transition between budgets, because of uncertainty about the next level of funding.
During the transition, institute budgets will be frozen, and any additional state money will go for bonuses to reward outstanding performance or to support new projects.
This swing away from large data passing will transition IT budgets to focus on placing more compute at the edge, and reap more benefits than just bandwidth savings.
During this moment of transition when budgets for long form journalism seem scarcer by the day, maybe looking to the classics or the public domain is one tiny way to keep our collective attention span in tact.
The transition to ABC budgeting from line-item budgeting that most municipalities use has not been easy.
