Senior officials from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, including the majority of his designated Cabinet nominations, were at the White House on Wednesday to join in a move training held by President Joe Biden’s group.
Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall presided over the change tabletop exercise in the White House Situation Room, according to the White House, and included a sizable portion of Biden’s incoming Cabinet for the two-hour program. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the training has been a crucial component of political transitions. It gives the incoming and incoming teams a chance to practice how to deal with and manage a variety of national security crises.
Wednesday’s model touched on the management of potential terror strikes and insect virus, among other problems.
The exercises you occasionally turn into a strange glimpse into reality. One such training included a discussion of the United States ‘ response to a global public health event during the transition from then-President Barack Obama to Trump. Three years later, Trump’s presidency was confronted with the COVID-19 epidemic.
It comes two days after a New Year’s Time invasion by the Islamic State in New Orleans left 14 dead and more than two dozen injured. The nation is currently battling an aquatic flu pandemic that has claimed one life and affected the country’s food supply.
Participants included Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pull for secretary of state, past Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s candidate for director of national intelligence, his defence minister get Pete Hegseth, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, his nomination for homeland security minister, among people. Rep. Mike Waltz, the approaching national security adviser, and other top White House staff also represented the Trump team.
Among the Biden Cabinet members or their representatives who took part in the conference, which took place time after the United States aided in negotiating a peace between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, were Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
The Biden team has been highlighting its efforts to support Trump’s transition plan, including providing updates on the top five to ten most pressing problems at each agency and responding to lots of requests for information from across the state on continuous programs. The White House individually briefed Trump’s team on major problems, including global health, crisis response and artificial intelligence, that may need actions in the first six weeks of the new leadership.
Following an earlier tabletop in November where older career government staffers gathered to prepare for the coming administration, Wednesday’s exercise is now available online.
Individually, Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House chief of staff was seen in the West Wing before Wednesday ahead of the training meeting with older members of the former administration.
