Joe Biden names several top Cabinet picks

Washington, 24th November: US President-elect Joe Biden announced his intended nominees for top national security positions on Monday.

Baaghi TV: According to reports from CNBC, Joe Biden has started selecting important names and has started assembling a team of experienced institutionalists to fill his incoming Cabinet.

US experts and analysts say Biden’s list includes people who served in the State Department and the Obama administration at the White House. They also say some of them have a long-standing relationship with Mr Biden.

Joe Biden took to his Twitter account to make the official announcement:

Today, I’m announcing the first members of my national security and foreign policy team. They will rally the world to take on our challenges like no other—challenges that no one nation can face alone.

It’s time to restore American leadership. I trust this group to do just that. pic.twitter.com/uKE5JG45Ts

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 23, 2020

He wrote, “Today, I’m announcing the first members of my national security and foreign policy team. They will rally the world to take on our challenges like no other—challenges that no one nation can face alone. It’s time to restore American leadership. I trust this group to do just that.”

Under the Biden-Harris administration, American national security and foreign policy will be led by experienced professionals ready to restore principled leadership on the world stage and dignified leadership at home. Read more: https://t.co/ojrTxrzafV

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 23, 2020

In addition to his previously reported plan to nominate Antony Blinken to be his secretary of State and Jake Sullivan to be national security advisor, Biden also announced he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security and Avril Haines to be the director of national intelligence.

Having worked as an advisor to Biden for decades, Blinken is well known in national security circles, where he developed a reputation as a pragmatic realist and a strong backer of multilateral institutions.

US Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken attends a press conference about the 2016 annual report on international religious freedom at the US Department of State August 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Sullivan is a former top aide to Hillary Clinton who also served as a national security advisor to Biden during the Obama administration. He has previously said that effective U.S. foreign policy is rooted in strong democratic institutions at home.

Biden’s pick for director of national intelligence, Haines, is a former deputy director of the CIA and deputy national security advisor in the Obama administration. Under Biden, she will become the first woman to lead the intelligence community.

Biden’s nominee to lead Homeland Security, Mayorkas, will also break historical barriers if confirmed, becoming the first immigrant and the first Latino to lead the department charged with implementing the lion’s share of America’s immigration policies.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has been named as the Secretary of the Air Force. John Kerry has extensive experience in global crises and convener on major climate issues, ranging from the Paris accords to oceans to biodiversity.

Earlier on Monday, Biden also announced two other senior White House hires: Reema Dodin and Shuwanza Goff, who will both serve as deputy directors in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.

Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris and I spent the afternoon meeting with a bipartisan group of mayors. It was just the start of what I know will be a strong partnership in the months and years ahead. Together, we’re going to beat COVID-19 and build back better. pic.twitter.com/2oiKD7gxAi

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 24, 2020

The top agenda of the Biden’s presidency is a massive coronavirus relief package that both Republicans and Democrats say will need to be passed shortly after Biden takes office in late January.

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