President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced Tuesday that it has reached a final agreement with the Justice Department to conduct background checks on Trump’s team.

Trump’s transition team has signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to begin submitting names for FBI background checks. According to to Reuters. The new agreement will give agency landing teams access to the information they need to serve federal agencies and departments.

“This agreement with the Department of Justice ensures that from day one, President Trump and his team will enact the America First Agenda, which was supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans on Election Day,” said Susie Wiles, President Trump’s incoming chief of staff. We will be able to start in 2020.”

Wiles served as President Trump’s 2024 campaign chief and became the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff during Trump’s second administration. “Susie Wiles helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history and was an integral part of my successful 2016 and 2020 campaigns,” President Trump said in a statement. said. (Related: Trump’s legal team cites Biden’s ‘unprecedented criticism’ of Justice Department during removal petition)

The team previously struck an agreement with the White House to streamline meetings between federal department officials and their counterparts in preparation for the January transition.

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