About Elie Hirschfeld

On Monday morning, the pro-business nonprofit Partnership for New York City  sent an open letter to Trump  — who has been waging a war in the courts and on Twitter over the election results, and has refused to start the transition process — pleading with the president to start giving Biden the necessary briefings as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage. “Every day that an orderly presidential transition process is delayed, our democracy grows weaker in the eyes of our own citizens, and the nation’s stature on the global stage is diminished,” the letter reads. “Our national interest and respect for the integrity of our democratic process requires that the administrator of the federal General Services Administration immediately ascertain that Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris are the president-elect and vice president-elect so that a proper transition can begin. Withholding resources and vital information from an incoming administration puts the public and economic health and se