Biden Makes Historic Picks In Naming Foreign Policy, National Security Teams : Biden Tr... - 0 views
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President-elect Joe Biden has named six leaders of his foreign policy and national security teams, showing a continued push for historic firsts in his administration.
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Yellen, 74, was the first-ever female Fed chair and would be the first-ever female head of the U.S. Treasury.
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Alejandro Mayorkas, who was a deputy secretary in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration, is the first Latino and immigrant nominated as DHS secretary
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he worked on the development and implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and headed the department's response to the Ebola and Zika health crises.
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Avril Haines is tapped to serve as director of national intelligence, and if confirmed, she would become the first woman to lead the intelligence community.
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She previously was deputy national security adviser and deputy director of the CIA, the first woman to hold the position
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Additionally, former Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the negotiations over the Paris climate accords, has been named as special presidential envoy for climate to sit on the National Security Council. It will be the first time the NSC has included a member solely devoted to the issue of climate change.
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Jake Sullivan, another close Biden aide, has been announced for the position of national security adviser in the new administration.
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Sullivan previously was the former vice president's national security adviser and worked at the State Department under Hillary Clinton.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield for the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The role would mark Thomas-Greenfield's return to public service after retiring from her 35-year career with the Foreign Service in 2017.
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Biden is elevating the ambassadorship to a Cabinet-level position. The announcement also puts a Black woman in a highly visible role.
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The staffing announcements come after reporting that Biden had selected longtime adviser Antony Blinken for the coveted secretary of state post. Blinken was deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama.
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Four of the six roles require Senate confirmation, with Sullivan's and Kerry's positions not needing such a vote.
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"These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative," Biden said in a statement.
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they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet the profound challenges of this new moment with old thinking and unchanged habits — or without diversity of background and perspective. It's why I've selected them."
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And dozens of House Democrats are urging Biden to name their colleague, Rep. Deb Haaland, as interior secretary. She would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history.