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Joe Biden names several top cabinet picks

Twenty days after Election Day, U S President-elect Joe Biden announced the names of several key appointees in his administration on Monday.longtime foreign policy advisor Antony Blinken to be his secretary of state and former US chief diplomat John Kerry as his special climate envoy. Biden also nominated the first Latino ever, Cuba-born lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas, to lead the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration. He picked Avril Haines, the former deputy CIA director, as his director of national intelligence, the first woman to ever hold that position. Biden also said that long-time diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations, with status as a cabinet member. Biden's tweet gives details of his new cabinet.

 

 

All are veterans of the former 2009-2017 Obama-Biden administration, and deeply experienced in their fields. One more good news was that President Donald Trump gave some ground to allow Joe Biden’s transition to the presidency after the ranks grew of prominent Republicans calling for Trump to end efforts to overturn his election defeat. The ground shifted significantly, however, late on Monday. Trump gave the go-ahead for federal funds to start flowing to Biden so that he can carry out his transition duties before his Jan. 20 inauguration as the 46th U.S. president.


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