White House: Trump Team Still Hasn't Signed Transition Docs

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38. It's a constraint on what the Executive branch can do.

It constrains and makes clear requirements for access to federal help and places floors on what must be provided. (Whether or not they're all that legally binding is a question because at some point there must be *some* coordination if it's wanted even if all the legal niceties aren't met, otherwise the law is shooting the government in the foot.)

The laws cannot be a constraint on what the incoming administration does, at least not on Trump/Vance, because if they win the EC vote they're to be inaugurated and that's pretty much that.

Whether the law's a constraint on the Senate ... Okay, that's laughable. The Senate will confirm or not. At that point, the transition's over.

If Trump appoints acting whatevers post-inauguration, then that's also post-transition.

I could guess Trump's motivation, but it would be just my guess.