WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s transition workforce will arrive on the Pentagon on Monday, a Pentagon spokesperson stated, after a delay in signing an settlement after the Nov. 5 election to formally start the transition course of.
Pentagon spokesman Main Basic Pat Ryder stated that Deputy Protection Secretary Kathleen Hicks spoke with the Trump transition workforce on Friday and “conveyed the division’s dedication to conducting a easy {and professional} transition.”
The bizarre delay in signing the settlement after the election had raised issues amongst some critics about potential hiccups in authorities operations or conflicts of curiosity.
Trump, a Republican, will take workplace on Jan. 20. His workforce had rejected entreaties from Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration to rapidly signal a memorandum of understanding and had objected to some components of a conventional transition settlement, in line with the White Home.