Start the splice! Biden’s team announces it will begin meetings with Trump officials

The transition team of the US president-elect, Joe Biden, announced on Monday that in “the next few days” it will begin meetings with officials from Donald Trump’s government in order to make effective the transfer of power to which the outgoing president has just given the go-ahead

” In the coming days, transition officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the response to the pandemic, having detailed information on our national security interests,” Biden’s transition team executive director, Yohannes Abraham, said in a statement

The Democratic official also said that at those meetings they will seek to “get a full