Some of the people Brough in now will becoming cabinet and agency heads….
Biden IS trying to balance things with prior people he worked with up to 4 years ago and some of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren staffers…
He is NOT leaning hard left….
And these people have a LOT of difficult work to do ahead of them….
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden added several former Obama administration officials as well as former South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to his transition team.
According to multiple media outlets, former National Security advisor Susan Rice and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates are joining the transition team. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) and Jeff Zients, former President Obama’s National Economic Council director, will also reportedly join the transition team as co-chairs.
Biden campaign adviser Anita Dunn, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy are also reportedly joining the transition team. Other transition members include Tony Allen, president of Delaware State University, and Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers.
“We are preparing for this transition amid the backdrop of a global health crisis and struggling economy,” former Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), who is leading the transition team, told Reuters. “This is a transition like no other, and the team being assembled will help Joe Biden meet the urgent challenges facing our country on day one.”…
Update on 2020 Presidential transition effort…
“So far, so good,” said David Marchick, director for the Center for Presidential Transition. “The three major players — the Trump White House, the career officials in the agencies and the Biden team — are all taking their transition work very seriously. This will be the most important transition since 1932 given the United States simultaneously face economic, health and social justice crises.”
Marchick said he does not underestimate the scale of the challenge ahead for transition officials on both sides. “A transition to a first or second term is a huge undertaking in a normal election year. This year, the degree of difficulty is many times greater.”
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