Building a Government Over Zoom

“High-level meetings interrupted by crying children. A presidential nominee taking diligent notes as he receives a virtual policy briefing at home. Advisers who have never met in person working to put together a federal government. This is what presidential transition planning looks like in the age of Zoom,” Politico reports.

“Scattered across the country and working from home, Biden’s transition team has been quietly preparing for months for a possible transfer of power — hiring staff and advisers, mapping out policy priorities and implementation plans, and compiling lists of names for some of the more than 4,000 political positions they will get to fill in the federal bureaucracy. But the team has yet to set foot in the office space carved out for them in the Commerce Department, and says they have no plans to do so with the coronavirus pandemic still rampant.