Presidential Transition Guide
The purpose of this guide is to share many of the lessons learned from past tran- sitions, and to suggest best practices and key choices most likely to contribute to smooth and successful transitions in the future.
- 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, develop- ing a functional decision-making structure and preparing to assume govern- ing 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 exec- utive actions, a management agenda, a budget proposal and potential legisla- tion 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
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