At this point, it’s hard to deny that President-elect Joe Biden will be moving into the White House on January 20th. But President Trump’s uncooperative actions and legal disputes trying to prove that “widespread voter fraud” stole the election from him, have made Biden’s transition a slow and messy venture.
Since the Electoral College gave Biden the majority of the vote thus certifying him as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, both side’s teams have bickered over just what this contested transition should look like, with the incumbent administration sometimes refusing to allow his opponent access to certain available resources.
Now, Biden and his team accused Trump’s Department of Defense of “obstructing” the process. The Pentagon did not take the insinuation kindly.
Biden said during remarks Monday that his transition team at the Pentagon has “encountered obstruction” from the political leadership and that it needed “full visibility into the budget planning process underway.”
“We have encountered roadblocks from the political leadership at the Department of Defense and the Office of Management and Budget. Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. It’s nothing short of irresponsible,” Biden said.
The Pentagon told Breitbart News in a statement:
DOD has been completely transparent with the Biden-Harris Transition Team on the fiscal 2021 budget. We have also provided topline information on the fiscal 2022-2026 program to the Biden-Harris Transition Team. The Office of Management and Budget has not yet authorized the release of the full details of the FY22-26 program.
The Pentagon also pushed back in a separate public statement against the idea that it is obstructing the transition.
President Trump’s last-ditch effort will come on January 6th when Congress will certify the results of the electoral college unless he can pull off a miracle and succeed in overturning the results before then.