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Joe Biden promised early in the election campaign that he would take the diversity of American society into account when composing his cabinet. “My government will look like the United States.”
There has been speculation about potential candidates for top ministries for weeks, and now some positions have been confirmed. All Biden candidates for ministerial positions must be approved by the Senate.
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Biden wants to turn his longtime adviser, ANTONY BLINKEN (58), into the top US diplomat, known as an advocate for multilateral cooperation. Blinken, who lived with his family in Paris when he was young and graduated from high school, was Biden’s National Security Advisor from 2009 to 2013 when he was Vice President Barack Obama. From 2015 to 2017 he was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Blinken began his career at the State Department during the Bill Clinton administration. Biden wants to reverse the foreign policy course taken under Donald Trump and more closely involve America’s allies.
MINISTRY OF HOME PROTECTION
Biden nominated ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS (60) for the position of Minister of National Security. Mayorkas was born in Cuba, her parents left the country a little later after Fidel Castro came to power. The ministry plays a central role, among other things, in dealing with illegal immigration at the border with Mexico and with people who are in the country without papers. Trump took a hard line on immigration. Mayorkas was, among other things, a prosecutor in California and during Obama’s second term, undersecretary of national security.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Biden takes over an economy that has been badly hit by the corona pandemic. The Treasury Department will play a key role in overcoming the crisis: Biden intends to put JANET YELLEN (74) in charge of the agency, according to US media reports. She would be the first woman to hold this position. The economist was president of the United States Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. In October, he spoke out in favor of combating the crown crisis not only through monetary policy, but also through policy support measures. fiscal. Yellen is a follower of the theories of the economist John Maynard Keynes, according to which governments play an important role in overcoming economic crises, for example through increased public spending. Economist LAEL BRAINARD (58) was also considered a promising candidate, but according to media reports, she wants to keep Biden at the Fed, where she is currently one of five board members.
DEFENSE DEFENSE
Biden could also put a woman in charge of the Pentagon for the first time: MICHLE FLOURNOY (59) was already the favorite in 2014 to succeed then-resigned Defense Minister Chuck Hagel. She was Secretary of State at the Pentagon and an advisor to former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta. “Politico” reported Monday that Biden had yet to make a final decision on the head of the Pentagon. Former Obama Homeland Security Secretary JEH JOHNSON (63) is also listed. The lawyer would be the first black Secretary of Defense in the United States. Iraqi veteran senator TAMMY DUCKWORTH (52), who lost her legs in the war in 2004, was also in the conversation.
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
There are several candidates for the Ministry of Justice. With the defeat of DOUG JONES (66) in the race for his Senate seat, it is more likely that Biden will be able to consider him for the job. The Alabama Democrat has a close relationship with the president-elect and would be a credible figure when it comes to civil rights. His investigation as a prosecutor in Alabama resulted in members of the racist Ku Klux Klan being held accountable decades after a fatal 1963 bomb attack on a black church. Other candidates for the position include SALLY YATES, who was removed as Acting Attorney General of the United States just days after Trump took office in January 2017, the president of the Federal Democratic Party, TOM PEREZ, son of immigrants from the Republic. Dominicana, and XAVIER BECERRA, in 2017 became the first Latino to be sworn in to serve as California Attorney General
