A former senior adviser to President Obama defended President-elect Trump’s transition operation on Thursday by saying the incoming Republican leader and his staff are moving at the same pace as Obama and his team in 2008 when he was tasked with putting together a government.

“Lots of reasons to be concerned about [Donald Trump’s] transition but the pace of announcements isn’t one of them,” David Axelrod, who worked as a chief strategist for Obama’s presidential campaigns, wrote on Twitter.