The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices,provides transportation and office space to federal employees,and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies and other management tasks.
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The administrator is nominated by the president of the United States and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate.
Robin Colleen Carnahan is an American businesswoman,lawyer,and politician,who previously served as the Missouri Secretary of State and currently serves as the Administrator of General Services in the Biden administration. She is the daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan. In 2010,she was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Republican Senator Kit Bond. She was then a senior advisor at the global strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group. In 2013,Carnahan was named a fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. In February 2016,she joined the General Services Administration as the director of the state and local practice at 18F,a role she held until January 2020. She then became a fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University.
Daniel Mark Tangherlini is an American government official who currently serves as a Governor of the United States Postal Service. He served as administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration from 2012 to 2015. Unanimously approved to the post by the U.S. Senate on June 27,2013,he had served as Acting Administrator since his appointment by President Barack Obama on April 2,2012. He earlier served as an executive in the U.S. Department of the Treasury,as City Administrator of Washington,D.C.,and as interim General Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
In the United States,a presidential transition is the process during which the president-elect of the United States prepares to take over the administration of the federal government of the United States from the incumbent president. Though planning for transition by a non-incumbent candidate can start at any time before a presidential election and in the days following,the transition formally starts when the General Services Administration (GSA) declares an “apparent winner”of the election,thereby releasing the funds appropriated by Congress for the transition,and continues until inauguration day,when the president-elect takes the oath of office,at which point the powers,immunities,and responsibilities of the presidency are legally transferred to the new president.
The president-elect of the United States is the candidate who has presumptively won the United States presidential election and is awaiting inauguration to become the president. There is no explicit indication in the U.S. Constitution as to when that person actually becomes president-elect,although the Twentieth Amendment uses the term "president-elect",thus giving the term "president-elect" constitutional justification. It is assumed the Congressional certification of votes cast by the Electoral College of the United States –occurring after the third day of January following the swearing-in of the new Congress,per provisions of the Twelfth Amendment –unambiguously confirms the successful candidate as the official "president-elect" under the U.S. Constitution. As an unofficial term,president-elect has been used by the media since at least the latter half of the 19th century,and was in use by politicians since at least the 1790s. Politicians and the media have applied the term to the projected winner,even on election night,and very few who turned out to have lost have been referred to as such.
Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen is an American lawyer and the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Constitutional law,on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington,Indiana. She previously served in the Biden administration as Acting Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel,having been appointed on January 20,2021 by President Joe Biden,to return to the role she previously held in the Clinton administration. She was succeeded in that role in a permanent capacity by Christopher H. Schroeder,and is currently serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the same office
Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health care administrator,who served in the Obama administration as acting United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2015 to 2017,and as head of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015.
Martha N. Johnson is an American human resources executive and government official who served as Administrator of General Services from 2010 to 2012. Johnson resigned on April 2,2012,following a scathing Inspector General report that revealed a "gross misuse of taxpayer dollars" on an internal conference that was "excessive,wasteful,and in some cases impermissible."
Polly Ellen Trottenberg is an American government official who is serving as Deputy Secretary of Transportation under Pete Buttigieg since April 14,2021. She served as the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from June 2023 to October 2023. She previously served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2014 to 2020.
Donald Trump assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Russell "Russ" Thurlow Vought is an American former government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB from 2018 to 2020 and acting director from 2019 to 2020.
Emily Webster Murphy is an American attorney and former government official who served as the administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) from 2017 to 2021. Before serving in the GSA,Murphy was an attorney for the Republican National Committee and worked for several congressional committees and executive departments in the field of acquisition policy.
Christine Elizabeth Wormuth is an American defense official and career civil servant who serves as the United States Secretary of the Army since 2021. Wormuth previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2014 to 2016.
Andrea Joan Palm is an American government health advisor who is the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration. Previously,Palm served as secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Governor Tony Evers,an office she was never sworn into due to Republican opposition in the Wisconsin Senate.
Sarah Bianchi is a political advisor and former investment analyst serving as deputy United States trade representative for Asia,Africa,Investment,Services,Textiles,and Industrial Competitiveness. Prior to her confirmation as deputy USTR,she was a senior managing director at Evercore ISI,a global investment banking advisory firm.
The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7,2020,and ended on January 20,2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions,which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20,Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the outgoing Trump administration did not recognize Biden as the "apparent winner" until November 23.
Lana T. Hurdle is an American public official who served as the acting United States Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration. Hurdle served in an interim capacity until Biden's nominee,Pete Buttigieg,was confirmed by the United States Senate. Hurdle serves as the deputy assistant secretary for budget and programs in the Department of Transportation.
Jonathan Eugene Meyer is an American lawyer and government official who has served as the sixth general counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security since 2021.
