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Looking Back Looking Back THE CENTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION’S PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE 2020-21 TRUMP TO BIDEN TRANSFER OF POWER APRIL 2021 PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE Center for Presidential Transition LOOKING BACK 1 The Partnership for Public Service is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to revitalize the federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works. The Partnership teams up with federal agencies and other stakeholders to make our government more effective and efficient. We pursue this goal by: • Providing assistance to federal agencies to improve their management and operations, and to strengthen their leadership capacity. • Conducting outreach to college campuses and job seekers to promote public service. • Identifying and celebrating government’s successes so they can be replicated across government. • Advocating for needed legislative and regulatory reforms to strengthen the civil service. • Generating research on, and effective responses to, the workforce challenges facing our federal government. • Enhancing public understanding of the valuable work civil servants perform. 2 PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE Executive Summary he 2020 presidential election and weeks that ership teams. We worked with Congress to strengthen the followed were unlike any in modern American legal framework that governs transitions, provide sufficient history. After months of a surging pandemic, funding for these activities and support the Senate’s role T to provide advice and consent on more than 1,200 political economic turmoil and racial inequity resulting in social unrest, the country experienced additional tumult as appointments. We created Ready to Serve, a comprehen- ballots took four additional days to tabulate, and the pres- sive website for those who want to serve in the adminis- ident sowed distrust in the results in the weeks following tration, but lack the political know-how to competitively the election. These factors further delayed the federal apply. The goals of our Ready to Serve initiative include transition support for President-elect Joe Biden and was increasing diversity among political appointees and better followed by a violent insurrection against Congress on Jan. preparing prospective candidates to help them move 6, 2021 as it met to officially certify Biden as the winner, through the process quickly. challenging the founding principles of our democracy. Yet, Building on our efforts from the past three presidential on Jan. 20, the world watched as Biden was sworn in as transition cycles, we hosted conferences, meetings and the 46th president of the United States. Despite all of the onboarding sessions for transition teams and federal agen- challenges and turmoil, Biden’s presidency got off to a fast cies, developed webinars, fact sheets and issue briefs, and start due to the extensive transition planning that began in conducted research into past practices that highlighted the spring of 2020, with more than 1,100 political appoin- successes and stumbling blocks. We created over 1,000 tees sworn in and nine executive orders signed during his pages of new resources, provided more than 150 historical first few hours in office. documents, engaged nearly 200 subject-matter experts Day one activities at this level would not have been to share their advice and offered wide-ranging guidance possible without extensive preparations, which the Biden to the Biden transition team, Trump administration and team kicked off nearly 10 months before Inauguration career agency officials based on our extensive knowledge Day. In the spring of 2020, the Biden team quietly began of past presidential transitions. an early and extensive effort to lay the groundwork for a Our work would not be possible without our generous potential future administration, which would become one supporters and partners, our dedicated staff and the of the most well-planned transitions in history. Behind many volunteers from our network, who are listed at the the scenes, these efforts were supported by the nonpar- end of this report. We are especially thankful for Boston tisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Consulting Group’s continued support and expertise on Presidential Transition®. As the go-to expert on transition this important work. planning efforts, the Center shared key insights, historical documents, access to subject-matter experts and exten- Despite the challenges and roadblocks along the way, the sive research on nearly every key transition topic and Biden transition team was able to execute one of the most workstream, building on our efforts dating back to 2008. extensively planned transitions, as well as the first-ever virtual transition. While future research will examine their Our work extended well beyond the presidential transition efforts and highlight best practices, this paper lays out the team to support all the key stakeholders involved in a pres- details of the behind-the-scenes role played by the Center idential transition. We also collaborated with the Trump for Presidential Transition to ensure that the winner of Nov. administration to support their dual role in 2020: planning 3, 2020 election would be fully prepared to govern. for a second term and executing their statutory duties as the incumbent administration if there was a transfer of This report is divided into six sections: laying the ground- power. We supported the career agency transition officials work, the Biden transition team, the incumbent adminis- across the federal government responsible for preparing tration, Congress, prospective political appointees, and materials for a potential new administration and their lead- research and experts. LOOKING BACK 3 Laying the Groundwork PREPARING FOR 2020 We launched the Center for Presidential Tran- The Center conducted a thorough review of past sition’s 2020 efforts in November 2019, one year practices and identified areas for growth ahead of the presidential election. While the Center created numerous materials to support transitions For the 2020-21 transition cycle, the Center since 2008, we expanded our resources and deep- conducted extensive research and analysis on polit- ened our connections with key stakeholders during ical appointments, provided new resources for the 2020 transition cycle. prospective appointees and added information for The Center targeted three audiences: presiden- agency review teams. tial transition teams, the incumbent administration The Center’s team engaged with a variety of tran- and career agency officials. Presidential candidate sition stakeholders and experts to gain insights and transition teams play a key role in preparing for a lessons learned from past presidential transition new administration in the pre-election phase as cycles. We also held meetings with every former well as post-election. Historically, transition teams transition team executive director dating back to have consisted of individuals close to the presi- Bill Clinton’s 1992 election, along with former White dential candidates who have experience managing House chiefs of staff, senior political appointees and complex teams and operations. However, they do career agency officials with transition experience. not always have the knowledge and experience In December 2019, the Center team interviewed required to effectively prepare for the huge amount Ed Meier, co-executive director of Hillary Clinton’s of work required. This is where the Center fits in, 2016 transition team, and Rich Bagger, executive offering a wealth of information to help transition director of Donald Trump’s 2016 transition team, teams organize their operations and prepare their to get feedback about the 2016 cycle and explore candidates to govern. ways for the Center to add more value in the year to come. We sought advice on which Center resources and activities were the most useful, where we fell short and what knowledge or resource gaps they experienced. With their guidance, the team in 2020 expanded and improved our resources on transi- tion team operations, personnel planning, the role of Senate committees, appointee onboarding and training, and agency review. “Transitions are inevitably Through this process, we refined our materials and research, set up a structure to field requests and challenging, difficult, complicated worked closely with the Biden transition team and and messy. A lot of that can be the White House to provide resources, share best practices and answer questions. We also facilitated mitigated with a much longer an open dialogue with a range of other stakeholders planning cycle, which I think now is to incorporate lessons learned from previous tran- sition cycles. accepted.” Mack McLarty, chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, Transition Lab podcast 4 PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE The Biden Transition As a nonpartisan source of expertise and infor- and resources. Both Kaufman and Gitenstein mation, the Center worked with all Democratic attended the Center’s initial transition conference campaigns at the beginning of 2020 to ensure they in the spring. began transition planning by the spring. We prepared introductory resources on the need for early plan- The Center hosted its fourth hallmark transition ning for the eight major Democratic campaigns and management conference in late spring to initiate began discussions with the White House in January. transition planning Through April, we maintained a dialogue with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ team, whose
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