The Trump transition has moved toward deploying “landing team” members into federal agencies as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take over the executive branch Jan. 20.
The Trump team has begun sending information about agency landing team members to the White House, a Trump transition official confirmed Monday. That person, who was granted anonymity to discuss internal transition operations, declined to comment on timing for the deployment of those team members.
It paves the way for Trump transition officials to head into agencies for briefings as they draft their own policy agendas and prepare to take the reins from the departing Biden administration in just over a month. The landing teams’ arrival is set to be later than usual in a presidential transition; the Trump team was delayed in reaching a transition agreement with the Biden administration and did not ink a deal until late last month to formalize the process.
The White House confirmed last week that it had started receiving landing team members’ names from the Trump operation, POLITICO reported. The White House did not immediately respond to questions Monday about whether landing teams have been deployed to specific agencies or about the members of the landing teams.
