Trump Gets Help Again From Appointee Holding Up Transition (1)

A little-known agency head who has delayed triggering a formal government transition to the Biden administration has been a top official at the organization when it sided with President Donald Trump in disputes.

Emily W. Murphy, the Trump-appointed administrator of the General Services Administration, has not yet declared Joe Biden as the apparent winner of the presidential election, a decision that would unlock millions of dollars in transition funding but contradict Trump’s unfounded assertion that he won.

Murphy, who declined through a spokesperson to comment, was at the GSA when it decided to keep housing the Trump International Hotel ...