Former Vice President Joe Biden defeated President Trump on Saturday after an extended vote count, sending the Democratic nominee to the White House on a promise to bring order to what has often been a chaotic approach to governing in the current administration.
Biden’s victory, which pollsters predicted but took several days to declare due to the slow counting of an onslaught of mailed-in ballots, will likely have significant and immediate impacts on federal agencies. The president-elect has often spoken of the value of public service and promised to listen to and respect experts across the government, something to which Trump has frequently demonstrated an aversion. Biden has criticized Trump for attacking the institutional guardrails that protect American democracy and vowed to boost the rolls at agencies he said Trump has “hollowed out.”
“To call the Trump administration’s management of the federal government a fundamental misunderstanding of how it works would be generous,” Biden said earlier this year.
The Biden team has touted its capacity to hit the ground running, pointing to a robust transition team led by longtime Biden aide and former Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del. A key 2016 law that boosted and codified transition processes is named after Kaufman due to his efforts getting it passed. The presidential transition began last November and, so far, the Trump administration has met its statutory requirements, such as designating space to the Biden campaign, establishing a White House coordinating committee and council of agency transition directors and submitting reports to Congress six months and three months ahead of the election.
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