His picks for DHS secretary and director of national intelligence would become the first Latino and woman to serve in those roles, respectively.
President-elect Joe Biden formally announced a slate of Cabinet nominations on Monday, stacking his incoming foreign policy and national security team with experienced public servants and veterans of former President Barack Obama’s administration.
Biden’s selections include Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of Homeland Security, Avril Haines as director of national intelligence and John Kerry as special presidential envoy for climate.
The transition team’s announcement also confirmed reports from over the weekend that Biden had chosen Antony Blinken as secretary of State, Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Mayorkas, who was born in Cuba and moved to the United States when he was a year old, was the former deputy DHS secretary in the Obama administration. He is currently a partner at the law firm WilmerHale.
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2 comments:
"His SecState is a Lobbyist who owns his own lobbying firm in DC. Tell me that ain’t Pay to Play corruption."
After Sec State Clinton and Joe Biden (Ukraine, Kazakhistan, China), I believe this allegation.
John Kerry? The horror
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