Biden team moves quickly to begin transition after GSA green light
President-elect Biden's transition team began reaching out to federal agencies on Monday night, soon after receiving the green light from the GSA and its embattled Administrator Emily Murphy.
Some of the more than 500 Biden staffers and volunteers organized into agency review teams are already in the process of scheduling additional briefings and meetings with counterparts at the Justice Department, Pentagon, Centers for Disease Control, and Department of Health and Human Services, according to a transition official.
Under normal circumstances, those teams would be fanning out across the Washington, D.C., area to meet with officials at each agency and gather in their own office space set aside for presidential transition work. But most of Biden's operation is expected to continue working remotely, given the pandemic, though exceptions include team members working in the national security space, who will need to access classified information in secure settings.
As for Biden, the president-elect could receive his first presidential daily brief -- the sensitive intelligence document seen by only a handful of senior administration officials along with the commander-in-chief -- in the coming days.
-ABC News’ Benjamin Siegel
