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- Greens propose five-point plan to phase out live sheep exports – The Sydney Morning Herald
- Carbon capture offers a false hope that we can sustain our use of coal – The Age
- A Cash Plus Model for Safe Transitions to a Healthy and Productive Adulthood: Baseline Report – Reliefweb
- Before Amazon, Rung Reined in Redundant Federal Purchasing – Bloomberg Government (blog)
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Executing a Transition
Executing a presidential transition involves establishing key goals and organizing the infrastructure necessary to achieve them, including:
Staffing the White House and the Executive Office of the President, developing a functional decision-making structure and preparing to assume governing responsibility
Making more than 4,000 presidential appointments, roughly 1,000 of which require Senate confirmation
- Getting up to speed on more than 100 federal agencies and organizing and training leadership teams for each
Building a full policy platform for the new administration and planning executive actions, a management agenda, a budget proposal and potential legislation to implement those policies
Preparing a 100- to 200-day plan for executing the policies laid out by the president during the campaign and getting the new administration off to a quick start
Developing a strategy for communicating with the American people, Congress, the media, political appointees, the federal workforce and other stakeholders
Essential Government Positions
In the News
- Program gives ACT greyhound industry support, as last race nears – The Sydney Morning Herald
- Greens propose five-point plan to phase out live sheep exports – The Sydney Morning Herald
- Carbon capture offers a false hope that we can sustain our use of coal – The Age
- A Cash Plus Model for Safe Transitions to a Healthy and Productive Adulthood: Baseline Report – Reliefweb
- Before Amazon, Rung Reined in Redundant Federal Purchasing – Bloomberg Government (blog)