A departing Presidentâs ability to make decisions seeking to impact his successorâs future actions—even as he is vacating the White House in the last weeks of his Presidency—was dramatically illustrated on December 23, 2016 when America failed to veto Security Council Resolution 2334. Then Secretary of State—John Kerry—explained why the Obama-Biden administration had taken that decision on the eve of handing over to the Trump-Pence administration: A departing Presidentâs ability to make decisions seeking to impact his successorâs future actions—even as he is vacating the White House in the last weeks of his Presidency—was dramatically illustrated on December 23, 2016 when America failed to veto Security Council Resolution 2334.