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9 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Emily Murphy, a Trump political appointee at the GSA, is refusing to sign a letter that would allow Joe Biden’s transition team to formally begin its work.

The GSA IG previously found that Murphy may have misled Congress about Trump’s role in the move to keep FBI's HQ downtown.
A refresher: In July 2017, the Trump administration scrapped a longstanding plan to move the FBI from the deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover Building downtown to the suburbs, a plan that officials said would save money and open up prime downtown real estate.
wtop.com/local/2017/07/…
The FBI had sought congressional funding to relocate for more than a decade. Seven months after the administration canceled the search for a new site, it announced plans to rebuild at its current location — one block from the Trump International Hotel.
washingtonpost.com/news/business/…
The cancellation — along with reports that President Donald Trump was personally involved — immediately raised concerns that the White House pushed to ensure a valuable city block remained free of competition for the president’s hotel.
Then, in late summer 2018, the inspector general of the General Services Administration found that GSA Administrator Emily Murphy may have misled Congress about Trump’s role — and that the agency had inaccurately estimated the costs of rebuilding.
gsaig.gov/sites/default/…
We previously obtained calendar records for General Services Administration high-ranking officials, including Emily Murphy.
americanoversight.org/document/gsa-c…
We’ve also been investigating what influence the White House and the Trump Organization might have had over the FBI headquarters project decision.
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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Emily Murphy, a Trump political appointee at the GSA, has failed to sign a memo that would authorize President-elect Biden’s transition team to formally begin its work.

We have launched an investigation into GSA’s refusal to approve these transition resources.
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