President-elect Donald Trump’s team has missed deadlines on signing two standard memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with key federal entities to get presidential transition planning underway, reports Axios.

The two MOUs include an agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA), which outlines support services such as access to office space, IT equipment, and federal staff, and an agreement with the White House defining how an incoming administration can access agencies after the election. A third agreement outlined in the Presidential Transition Act, but not explicitly required by law, governs how the Department of Justice covers security clearance requests for transition team members who need to access classified information.

Valerie Smith Boyd, the director of the Center for Presidential Transition, told Axios “everything rests on” the White House MOU.

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