The Clinton administration has denied the Bush team access to a 90,000-square-foot suite of offices and $5.3 million in public funds for transition operations.
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration.
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of his administration.
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of the Obama administration.
And I think this is the biggest mistake of the political season". -- Trump's presidential transition operation is quietly building a series of policy teams tasked with mapping out his agenda, Politico's Andrew Restuccia reports.
The public funding will cover the costs of a transition operation at GSA headquarters in downtown Washington, where the transition staff is vetting candidates for thousands of the positions it needs to fill across the government with political appointees.
Representatives of Trump's transition operation and his business operation did not reply to requests for comment.
John Podesta, who will head the transition operation, is another key figure, a former chief of staff at the Clinton White House.
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas is going to the soft-money well once again, this time to raise cash for his transition operation.
As of Tuesday night, before it was even certain that Mr. Bush would become president, his skeletal transition operation here had received 20,177 job applications.
