President-elect Donald Trump will not officially take power until January.
Unofficially, Washington is already beginning the realignment.
This week, the city took two major steps in that direction. Wednesday saw the announcement from FBI Director Christopher Wray that he will not continue his term in office under the incoming Trump administration.
The move is a gift for Republicans on the Hill, who won't have to answer questions next year about Trump's once-inevitable firing of Wray.
In the Senate, a familiar pair of lawmakers dealt the Biden administration and the incumbent president's party one final defeat on the same day.
Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — the centrist independents who remain in the Democratic caucus despite elevation to near-cartoonish heights of villainry among the Democratic Party's base — struck a blow against fellow lame-ducker Joe Biden and refused to confirm the reappointment of National Labor Relations Board chief Lauren McFerran.
Tanking that reappointment frees up the position to immediately be filled by Trump when he arrives in January.
So what is the sitting president doing?
Thursday morning brought news that President Joe Biden had issued another wave of commutations; the response was muted. The move itself was fairly toothless: the targets only included Americans who'd already been moved to home confinement.
Washington appears to be moving on from Biden at a quickened pace, as he and Vice President Kamala Harris are fading from the spotlight.
Leaders around the world, meanwhile, are themselves already preparing for a Trumpworld takeover of Washington DC.
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