Trump-Biden transition updates: Trump continues to tout he won election at Ga. rally

The NAACP, along with prominent civil rights organizations and members of Congress, are placing pressure on Biden to appoint more Black officials to senior Cabinet positions. The president-elect has named several people of color to key administration roles, including two African American women but to positions that are not considered permanent Cabinet-level positions.

Civil rights groups are pushing to see more minorities in signature Cabinet roles, overseeing agencies with thousands of federal workers, given Biden's promise to elevate the priorities of minority communities on the campaign trail.

Among the African American contenders for other top Cabinet slots are former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick for Attorney General and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to lead the Pentagon. However, Derek Johnson, the president of the NAACP, said he was astounded that the Biden transition team did not invite civil rights organizations to be part of the process on the selection of Cabinet appointments.

"If you look at the transition team, there is not a single civil rights organization engaged on any of the review committees," said Johnson. "There was no inclusion of the civil rights community or racial justice advocates to be a part of the table setting how this administration will prioritize the four of his announced pillars."

The Biden transition says the incoming administration is in regular contact with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss planning, including receiving recommendations for potential nominees and has engaged with the National Urban League and the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund.

"The legal defense fund is not a part of any conversation outside of them calling," Johnson said. "So I don't want them to parse the reality of what's taking place."

Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are slated to meet with NAACP representatives on Tuesday.

-ABC News' Matthew Vann and Benjamin Siegel

In their weekly transition press briefing, incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said that members of the president-elect’s health team will be rolled out “early next week” and elaborated on Biden’s announcement that he would ask all Americans to wear a mask for 100 days on his first day in office.

Bedingfield reiterated that Biden would take action to mandate face coverings where he could and said more information would be made public in the coming weeks. 

“He's going to use the power that he has available to him to mandate mask-wearing in places where he has the authority to do so, including on federal lands and in interstate commerce," she said.

She also said that all 40-plus of the transition’s agency review teams are engaging with their counterparts in the federal government regularly and have held over 1,000 meetings thus far, noting the team’s meeting with the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday as a sign of progress.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle, John Verhovek and Averi Harper

Vice President Mike Pence is heading to Georgia on Friday to headline an afternoon rally for GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the state's upcoming runoff elections -- races set to decide the overall control of the U.S. Senate.

Trump will be traveling to Georgia Saturday to support the candidates at an airport hangar rally hosted by the Republican National Committee. It will be Trump's first rally since losing the election.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was slated to greet Pence upon his arrival in Savannah, but Kemp's Communications Director Cody Hall, tweeted Friday afternoon that he no longer will be "due to a family emergency."

The vice president's visit to Georgia comes as the president continues to slam the state's election process and its officials -- including Kemp -- in the aftermath of his loss there in the presidential election, and as a growing number of Republicans have expressed concerns that rhetoric coming from Trump and some allies could suppress GOP turnout for the runoff races on Jan. 5.

While Pence rallies for Purdue and Loeffler, former President Barack Obama will join a virtual rally for the Democratic contenders, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

In a lengthy paper statement released Friday ahead of his afternoon speech, Biden lamented the "grim" November jobs report, saying it shows an economy "stalling" and confirms that the nation remains in "one of the worst economic and jobs crises in modern history."

Biden also cautioned that this report is just a snapshot of the economy prior to the deadly surge in cases the nation is seeing now, adding that the economic situation will get worse if Congress and Trump do not act in the coming weeks.

A $908 billion COVID-19 relief proposal advanced by a bipartisan group of Senators has gained momentum on Capitol Hill with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaking over the phone Thursday to discuss pandemic relief for the first time since the November election -- but the deal is not yet done as lawmakers work to craft the bill's final language.

Biden said in Friday's statement that while he is "encouraged" by the bipartisan $908 billion relief bill working its way through Congress, it is not nearly enough to stem the negative effects the pandemic has had on the American economy, calling it "just the start."

He reiterated that he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are working on a plan they hope to get passed when they take office in January, encouraging the country to come together to beat back the virus.

-ABC News' John Verhovek