How do we know the transition is actually taking place

Is he really going to go?

It was a question in the minds of many Americans over the past few months as President Donald Trump sought to undermine the results of the presidential election. As such, an unprecedented number of Republicans believe the outcome of the election is illegal, and Americans on the other side of the aisle are concerned. he will do not leave the White House on the election day of President Joe Biden.

Despite Trump’s protests, Biden’s team has announced 33 nominees to be confirmed by the Senate Lady Gaga will sing the national anthemconsidered ‘America United’ as the first theme, and it’s ready to have the White House professionally scrubbed from top to bottom. The program continues.

On Friday Reuters’ Steve Holland announced the big news: The 45th President of the United States plans to leave the White House on the morning of January 20th. Instead of attending President-elect Biden’s inauguration, he will reportedly host a farewell event outside the Andrews joint base. CN Actor Jim Acosta report A “color guard, military band, 21 rifle salutes and a red carpet” are all being considered for the event.

It is certainly not a seamless transition of power. On January 6, pro-Trump insurgents stormed the Capitol adorned in MAGA, Nazi and Confederate iconography, stopping the normal everyday counting of the ballot papers Vice President Mike Pence oversees. Hours later, the majority of Republican House of Representatives still voted to undermine the election by rejecting the presidential results from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

But over the past week, the president has finally conceded that there will be a transition of power, possibly due to concerns about legal expectations and accusations. While not acknowledging that Biden won the election fairly, he tried to distance himself from the violent upheaval caused, at least in part, by his false allegations of voter fraud by releasing two videos confirming Biden’s impending inauguration.

Meanwhile, his home is preparing for a new resident. Here’s what we know about the logistical procedures that are going on before Biden enters the White House.

Nominees are still being nominated, carpets are still being cleaned and moving boxes are still being packed

The inauguration day is also a moving day for the Bidens and the Trumps – and the White House has taken steps to allow the physical building to pass for its soon-to-be residents.

CNN’s Kate Bennett and Maegan Vazquez report that the White House is preparing for a thorough cleaning of the premises, a normal routine that has been increased this year. Now the whole building will receive an improved level of cleaning due to Covid-19. (Note: there is little evidence that surface transfer is a source of transfer, so this may be another example of the hygiene theater that has been so busy over the past year.)

According to CNN, the total for the “reinforced inauguration of the White House hangs deep clean … nearly half a million dollars.” This is a departure from previous years, when most of the cleaning work was done by White House staff; an anonymous source told CNN that this change was due to the Biden team’s concern that the building played host to more than one possible event in the distributor and a number of unsafe activities during a pandemic.

Packaging supplies are also delivered – a truck delivering folding boxes was taken down at the Eisenhower office building where most of the White House staff work.

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The most important part of the transition is appointments, a mixed bag for the Biden team. As NPR reported in 2009 when he was sworn in, then-President Barack Obama had already confirmed six cabinet members, and at his inauguration, Trump already had two. Biden, on the other hand, is on track to have zero, despite rolling out 33 nominees out of the 1,250 to be confirmed by the Senate, according to the Washington Post’s tracker.

Although Biden may enter the office slightly behind the curve of the cabinet confirmation, all indications are that he is entering the White House after his inauguration with the previous residents who had already left for Mar-a-Lago.