Get ready for a new regime.
Regardless of the outcome on Election Day, a new president will take over the White House and control of the entire federal government Jan. 20.
That means top political appointments will be made, new executive orders will be signed, policy agendas will be drafted and briefing books will be distributed. Transition officials from the federal government and the presidential candidates’ teams are already at work behind the scenes to make it all happen.
“This transition period helps teams become accustomed to each other or form relationships and get ready to hit the ground running together,” Valerie Smith Boyd, who heads the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition, told POLITICO’s E&E News. “So you really want it to be a successful, cooperative period.”
