Funding

[bcholmes]

I don't know how this works in American politics: does the president-elect have a government-provided budget? Or are various activities that the Obama team are undertaking paid for by the Democratic party? Or something else?

Comments

[redbird]

There's transition office space for the president-elect (under a law passed in the 1960s, I believe). On November 5, the appropriate bureaucrat handed Obama's people the keys to office space, with phones, computers, etc., which is set up in advance, because they know that someone will be elected. [I don't know if they set it up ahead of time, just in case, when an incumbent is running for reelection.]