Why the nation’s capital feels like a ghost town. What President-elect Joe Biden wants to get done on his first day in office. And why the Secret Service has been paying $3,000 a month for a bathroom.

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Biden’s first days

JAN 19, 202124 MIN
Post Reports

Biden’s first days

JAN 19, 202124 MIN

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<div>Why the nation’s capital feels like a ghost town. What President-elect Joe Biden wants to get done on his first day in office. And why the Secret Service has been paying $3,000 a month for a bathroom.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Read more:</div><div><br></div><div>President-elect Joe Biden has long been eager to undo and reshape policies advanced by the Trump administration over the past four years. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-day-one-agenda/2021/01/16/71540bde-576b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports">Come Wednesday, he’ll make liberal use of his executive powers to do it</a>, Matt Viser reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Jamison was reporting on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s potential departure from D.C., and he discovered a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports">bizarre detail</a>: The federal government used $3,000 a month of taxpayer dollars to pay for a bathroom for their Secret Service detail to use. The Trump-Kushner family has half a dozen bathrooms in their household, but according to neighbors and law enforcement officials, the people charged with keeping the family safe were instructed not to use any of them.</div><div><br></div><div>Subscribe to The Washington Post: <a href="https://postreports.com/offer">https://postreports.com/offer</a></div>