Biden's 'sneaky' plot to slow down Trump on day one of transition

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : However, Biden, in an interview with USA Today last week, also laughed when the news outlet asked him about Trump trying to overturn his initiatives.
58% : Trump pledged in September to rescind any 'unspent' funds under the Inflation Reduction Act - that law that provided billions to Biden's climate-friendly initiatives.
58% : And some groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have spoken with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the Elon Musk-backed effort will review federal spending and regulation, the Washington Post reported.
56% : And Trump seems to realize that.
53% : 'We'll put it back,' Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week.
51% : During the final weeks of his first term in 2020, Trump issued an executive order creating a new class of federal workers known as Schedule F. These staffers would be exempt from the country's traditional merit-based civil service program.
51% : Trump was in his first term at the time of the lawsuit and appealed the decision.
51% : And now Biden is pushing to get every last dollar and cent out the door before Trump enters the Oval Office.
50% : 'A future administration would have to go through a new regulatory process, which would also entail like explaining specifically through that rulemaking process why a different rule is better than the existing regulations that OPM (the Office of Personnel Management) finalized and are announced ... and how that new approach was consistent with the law.'Trump vilified some career officials as the 'deep state' during his term and sought to get rid of them.
46% : And Restaino would be in charge of federal cases until Trump gets his attorney general nominee and top Justice Department staff confirmed.
41% : But if Biden can obligate the funds that would offer them some legal protection against an effort by Trump to claw them back.RUSHING THROUGH RULES AND CONFIRMATIONSPresident Biden has confirmed 235 federal judges over the course of his presidency, which is one more than the 234 confirmed by Trump in his first administration.
41% : Trump wants to have the power to easily fire federal workers, which has brought fears he will fire career employees who have different political ideologies.
38% : In other words, it makes it nearly impossible for Trump to classify current federal employees under a Schedule F type order.
37% : Alternatively, Trump can issue new rules but those have to go through a long bureaucratic process, which includes a public comment period, before they become law.
36% : 'When President Trump's going to be in office, dealing with actual, real problems ... now he has to deal with stuff like this,' he added.
32% : And Biden publicly pledged to cooperate on the transition, which was a change from the 2020 election when Trump refused to concede to him and made no effort to facilitate a government handover.
31% : 'They're playing dirty during the transition period,' Ezra Cohen, a former Undersecretary of Defense for Trump and a current Hudson fellow, told DailyMail.com.
29% : SPEND, SPEND, SPENDPresident Biden is trying to spend as much as federal funds possible from his four major legislative accomplishments to he can dictate where the taxpayer money goes instead of leaving it to be spent by Trump.
26% : Trump has said he's ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to work on a deal to end the war.
23% : In his first term, Trump tried to revoke the TPS designation for six countries but was blocked by the courts.
23% : Trump has repeatedly promised he would reinstate Schedule F executive order on day one. '
21% : Although Cohen conceded that none of it is 'insurmountable,' he emphasized that the moves were 'just about throwing sand in the gears to try to interfere with President Trump.'
21% : When Trump comes into office, Republicans will control Congress and could pass the legislation that Trump would then sign into law to undo Biden's work.
19% : 'Trump's going to have a hard time undoing a lot, I think.'The Trump team is preparing to hit the ground running.
14% : Here's are some areas where Biden is making it difficult for Trump.ORDERS OF SUCCESSIONBiden has updated the order of succession at several federal agencies, rearranging the reporting order to ensure officials friendly to his policies are in charge while Trump gets his Cabinet nominees confirmed.
14% : And you know what it means is until President Trump gets his people confirmed, there is a risk that you will have hand-picked people by the previous administration in place, in control of these departments and agencies, and you know that's obviously going to make things more difficult.'Trump had this fight with the Justice Department in his first administration.

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