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By Dec. 1, 2024, Trump’s team had signed the White House transition agreement but still had not signed the separate GSA memo that would have unlocked office space, IT and other standard support. That left the handoff in an awkward split state: some access to agencies, but not the normal federal infrastructure that usually turns a campaign into a governing operation.
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By Dec. 1, 2024, Trump’s team had signed the White House transition agreement but still had not signed the separate GSA memo that would have unlocked office space, IT and other standard support. That left the handoff in an awkward split state: some access to agencies, but not the normal federal infrastructure that usually turns a campaign into a governing operation.
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By Dec. 1, 2024, Trump’s team had signed the White House transition agreement but still had not signed the separate GSA memo that would have unlocked office space, IT and other standard support. That left the handoff in an awkward split state: some access to agencies, but not the normal federal infrastructure that usually turns a campaign into a governing operation.
Trump had signed the White House transition agreement by Nov. 26, 2024, but his team still had not taken the separate GSA funding package that would have triggered donor caps, disclosure rules and other federal guardrails.
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