President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain said on Sunday that the General Services Administration’s (GSA) refusal to ascertain Biden as the winner of the election was preventing his team from conducting background checks on people he wants in his cabinet.
“We’re not getting background checks, we’re not in position to get background checks on cabinet nominees and so there are definite impacts. Those impacts escalate every day,” Klain said on ABC’s “This Week.” “And I hope that the administrator of the GSA will do her job. “The law only requires her to find who is the apparent victor of the election, and I can’t imagine there’s any dispute, any dispute, that Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidential election.”
Klain told host George Stephanopoulos the Biden transition would announce cabinet appointments on Tuesday.
“You’re going to see the first of the president’s cabinet appointments on Tuesday of this week, meeting the pace of — beating in fact — the pace that was set by the Obama-Biden transition, beating the pace set by the Trump transition. So you’re gonna see the first cabinet picks this Tuesday,” Klain said.
Biden said last week he had decided his pick for treasury secretary.
Biden chief of staff Ron Klain to @GStephanopoulos: President Trump “has set back the democratic norm here in the United States … a record number of Americans have rejected the Trump presidency and since then, Donald Trump has been rejecting democracy.” https://t.co/TgDgbf4NjF pic.twitter.com/ahyvsJcp4r
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 22, 2020
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Biden aide says GSA holdup prevents background checks on cabinet picks https://t.co/Njy15Ioi40 pic.twitter.com/GCszjMKiWv
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