President Joe Biden is planned to appear in front of the camera and make statements to the nation for the first time after Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris.

Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at 11 a.m. and said in a post on X that he would discuss the election results and transition.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that Biden met with the president-elect and expressed his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition and emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together. Biden invited the man he removed from the White House four years ago to an Oval Office meeting to prepare to return the keys.

“President Trump looks forward to the meeting shortly and greatly appreciates the call,” said Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director.

A White House official said Biden’s chief of staff later Wednesday encouraged the Trump team to sign federal agreements necessary to begin an orderly presidential transition.

A source familiar with Trump’s campaign said that transition talks to take over power on January 20, 2025 have not yet begun in earnest. Instead, the president-elect was busy taking calls from domestic and foreign leaders, donors and key supporters. Transition discussions are expected to accelerate later in the week as attention turns to identifying an inaugural committee and a formal transition team.

Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients reached out to Trump transition co-chairs Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon to reiterate the important role that agreements with the White House and General Services Administration played in kick-starting the presidential transition. The White House official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive transition planning.

The delay hinders the federal government’s ability to begin processing security clearances for potential Trump administration national security-related appointees, which could limit the number of personnel who can work on sensitive information by Inauguration Day. This also means they won’t yet have access to federal facilities, documents and personnel to prepare for duty.

The agreements are mandated by the Presidential Transition Act and require the president-elect’s team to agree on an ethics plan and limit and disclose private donations. Congress, by law, set September 1 as the deadline for the GSA agreement and October 1 for the White House agreement, in order to ensure that new administrations are ready to govern when they take office on January 20.

Lutnick and McMahon issued a statement late Wednesday saying Trump would select staff for his administration “in the coming days and weeks,” but did not address agreements made with the Biden administration.

“As we select the best people to join the team and the best policies to pursue, the transition team will ensure that President Trump’s common-sense agenda is implemented from Day 1,” they said.

Biden also called Harris to salute her for her campaign. According to Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, Trump and Harris spoke in a conversation in which the president-elect “recognized Vice President Harris for her strength, professionalism and tenacity throughout the campaign, and both leaders agreed on the importance of uniting the country.”

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