The act provides federal support for major party candidates to prepare to govern so that they can have personnel in place to take policy actions on their first day in office. Making sure presidential candidates are ready to take charge of the federal government became a heightened priority after the September 11 attacks, and the act has been updated several times since to provide additional resources to candidates and to require incumbents to plan for a handoff with even greater intensity. Young's letter is nearly identical to the one sent four years ago by Trump administration acting director Russell Vought, for a transition process that started out orderly, but derailed when then-President Donald Trump refused to concede his defeat to Biden. It took until November 23, two weeks after the election was called, for Trump's General Services Administration to name Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 race a required step for the transition to begin.

The law requires presidential candidates and the General Services Administration to reach a memorandum of understanding that governs everything from the provision of federal office space to access to sensitive documents by September 1, though often it is reached sooner. Candidates must first formally secure their party's nomination at their conventions before the memorandum of understanding can be signed. Transition teams begin vetting candidates for jobs in a future administration, including beginning the time-consuming security clearance process for likely appointees who need to be ready to take their posts on Inauguration Day. Biden in February launched a separate task force aimed at addressing the systemic problem of mishandling classified information during presidential transitions, days after a Justice Department special counsel's sharply critical report said he and his aides had done just that when he left the vice presidency in 2016.

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