More names coming out….
An all woman communications team….
Biden’s people are gonna have to do some heavy lifting to fill the void left after Donald Trump steps off the stage, but tries to keep in the media front row….
The Biden Economic people are due to be revealed also…
They are also gonna have to do some heavy lifting with a virus restricted economy and the Republican move to go back to restrictions on spending that they forgot for the last 4 years….And a Trump failure of a Trade War…..
The people named are sure to make Wall Street happy (And some Progressives) because they are ‘for’ a strong’ hot’ economy with growth and getting people jobs…..
Biden’s pick for Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, may run into some headwinds from Republicans in the senate because of her attacks against Trump….
(Tweeter is gonna be seeing less Presidential activity as Biden goes back to mostly regular daily press conference’s)….
As with his out choices so far?
Biden has moved to make the people running the executive branch more diverse than Trump’s people…
Communications…
Jennifer Psaki, a veteran Democratic spokeswoman, will be Biden’s White House press secretary, one of seven women who will fill the upper ranks of his administration’s communications staff. It is the first time that all of the top aides tasked with speaking on behalf of an administration and shaping its message will be female.
Biden’s press team will be led by Kate Bedingfield, a longtime Biden aide who served as his campaign communications director and will hold the same title in his White House.
Taken together, the plans demonstrate the president-elect’s determination to bring in a more diverse leadership team than what Washington has seen in the past.
Biden’s operation decided to announce the women on the communications team as a group to signal that the various top administration offices will coordinate closely, said Anita Dunn, a top Biden campaign aide….
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The communication team includes women with deep ties to Biden. Some worked on his presidential campaign, and others held top roles in the Obama administration. All have long track records in key Washington roles and promise to usher in a more stable era of White House communications.
“Communicating directly and truthfully to the American people is one of the most important duties of a President, and this team will be entrusted with the tremendous responsibility of connecting the American people to the White House,” Biden said in a statement.
“These qualified, experienced communicators bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building this country back better,” he added….
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Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Mr. Biden on the campaign, will serve as the senior adviser and chief spokeswoman for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Ashley Etienne, a former senior adviser to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will serve as the communications director for Ms. Harris….
Biden Economic People….
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to name top members of his economic team this week, including Cecilia Rouse, a Princeton labor economist, to run the Council of Economic Advisers, and Neera Tanden, the chief executive of the Center for American Progress, to lead the Office of Management and Budget, according to people familiar with the matter.
The announcement — which will include Mr. Biden’s decision to name Janet L. Yellen, the former Federal Reserve chair, as Treasury secretary — will culminate in several women in top economic roles, including the first Black woman to lead the Council of Economic Advisers. All three jobs require Senate confirmation.
With the picks, Mr. Biden is showcasing a commitment to diversity in his advisers and sending a clear message that economic policymaking in his administration will be shaped by liberal thinkers with a strong focus on worker empowerment as a tool for economic growth.
Two of Mr. Biden’s top economic aides during his presidential campaign, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, will also be named to the Council of Economic Advisers, which is a three-member team that advises the president on economic policy. Both Ms. Boushey and Mr. Bernstein come from a liberal, labor-oriented school of economics that views rising inequality as a threat to the economy and emphasizes government efforts to support and empower workers.
In many ways, his team is unified by a commitment to running the economy hot — with strong growth and low unemployment — in order to drive up wages. And it is likely to signal an embrace of spending to help workers, businesses and local governments recover from the pandemic recession, regardless of the effect on the federal budget deficit….
Susan Rice has company …..
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A spokesperson for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) tweeted that Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden’s reported pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, has “no chance” of being confirmed by the Senate should Republicans remain in control next year….
Politicalwire…
I didn’t know Cronyn was that “powerful?“
I know he’s a MAGA red hat wearing bootlicker.
Cronyn is in for a fight…
Biden went ahead with the Tanden pick….
At some point Biden HAS to get down a fight for what HE wants.…
There will obviously be at least nomination that gets rejected or has to be withdrawn. It happens at the beginning of every Administration regardless of which party controls what. Congress has to prove that it “can.”
If the Republicans lose the Georgia runoff’s?
Fun fact/Pop quiz:
What was the Senate vote — one day after “Kenyan Muslim” Barack H. Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20th, 2009 — to confirm his nomination of “crookèd” U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for U.S. Secretary of State?
[Sen.-elect-apparent Al Franken (DFL-Minn.) was not seated until July, while Sen. Clinton’s own seat stayed vacant until filled by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), so only 98 Senaators were eligible to vote.]
98- zip?
I didn’t peek at Wiki….
Not quite, but on the right track; try again.
cbeatsbeet at (which I helped to compose):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmations_of_Barack_Obama%27s_Cabinet#Confirmation_roll_call_votes
Ok…
I was pretty darn close, eh?
Tandan pick is under fire from Bothe right and left wing nuts!
…to many of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ staunchest supporters, Biden’s decision to tap Hillary Clinton loyalist Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget is just too much — the equivalent of rubbing salt in the wound….
More…
The Bernie Bros are still upset at her over 2016? Wow. Let’s not kid ourselves about what the next few years are going to be like for Democrats. It’s going to be far from Kumbaya. No wonder most of you want Trump to stay in the news as much as possible.
I am tempted to think that Tanden has been doing something right to have people on both sides pissed at her, but it probably means she can’t win Senate confirmation.
I don’t think anyone here thought that.
However,since you,despite your new found identity as an non practicing Republican ,still view things through that lens?
I think that you view all “ us libruls” as “kumbaya” type people.
Actually that word now more fits your former ( and future) Party as they sit around a virtual campfire singing virtual songs of praise for the Leader of their Cult.
The most interesting fight will be between him and the Left if he tries to nominate or appoint Rahm Emanuel to *anything.*
Joke of the day?
Grassley emphasizes that Senate must examine Yellen’s tax returns as part of confirmation process…
Seems par for the course for a Treasury Secretary nominee. I remember that even jack had issues with Geithner.
Clearly, Trump would never take a job that required Senate confirmation.
Trump ain’t gonna have another government job….
Why would he go thru the wringer again?
He’s got major legal issues coming at him in two months and no Bull Barr to cover his ass?
BTW?
WTF IS the AG?
I hope he isn’t loading up the shredder?
Trump is mad at him. He said on tv yesterday his own Justice Department might have rigged the election against him.
Yo Bill!?
That’s the pat on the back u get fir carrying the water for a crook….