Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory in Tuesday's presidential election, and now the countdown is on until he officially reclaims the Oval Office.

With just over two months left in his term, current President Joe Biden is reportedly scrambling to implement safeguards designed to protect his administration's foreign and domestic policies and to lock Trump out of the ability to quickly reverse them once he returns to D.C., as Politico reports.

Transition period begins

During a speech from the Rose Garden on Thursday, Biden acknowledged the results of the presidential contest, as the Daily Mail noted, explaining that he had already invited Trump to join him at the White House for a meeting in the near future.

The president emphasized what he said was the importance of a smooth transition of power, but according to some reports, he and members of his administration are working hard to try and prevent Trump from reversing course on many of their key policy initiatives.

According to Politico, at the top of Biden's priority list is bolstering the administration's stance on Ukraine via additional infusions of money as well as attempting to solidify its position on the conflict in the Middle East.

Despite the clear desire to prevent a wholesale undoing of the Biden administration's work in these areas, insiders have admitted that there are limits on what can be done, given the executive authority Trump will soon hold in addition to a significant level of support in both chambers of Congress.

One administration official lamented, “You really can't 'Trump-proof,” adding, “You can 'Trump delay,' you can throw sand in the gears, but there is no way short of legislation to 'Trump-proof.'”

“Schedule F” roadblocks erected

Another way in which the Biden administration took steps to thwart a prospective Trump administration's preferred policy shifts from taking place occurred earlier this year via the issuance of a new rule pertaining to the federal workforce, as Axios reported at the time.

The move was made in response to an executive order issued at the end of Trump's term that was designed to reclassify large numbers of federal workers into a new category characterized by the president's ability to replace the career civil servants contained in it with hand-selected candidates deemed loyal to the administration's agenda.

Back in 2022, Trump hinted that he would implement a return to his prior order if he ever made his way back to the White House.

Upon taking office in 2021, Biden rescinded that order, and in April, the Office of Personnel Management issued a new rule that would require any subsequent administration seeking to reintroduce the Trump-era classifications to instruct the agency to draft new rules that would then be subject to a public comment period, something likely to cause delays and prompt litigation.

Office of Personnel Management Kiran Ahuja said at the time the Biden rule was implemented, “This final rule honors our 2.2 million career civil servants, helping ensure that people are hired and fired based on merit and that they can carry out their duties based on their expertise and not political loyalty.”

State-level scrambling ensues

It is not just the Biden administration attempting to take proactive steps to combat what liberals claim is the imminent threat posed by the incoming Trump administration, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for a special state legislative session designed to, as the Associated Press put it, “safeguard the state's progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration.”

Joining in the left's collective meltdown on Wednesday were New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James, who publicly pledged to fight back against the supposed “policy and regulatory threats” they believe a new Trump administration will bring, further illustrating the willingness of Democrats everywhere to disregard the clear mandate that the former -- and now future -- president received from voters on Tuesday.