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US President-elect Joe Biden today asked the US Congress to pass without delay a “strong” plan to help the US economy, which is struggling to recover from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, reported AFP.
Democrat Biden, who introduced his economic team from the city of Wilmington, Delaware, said his message to everyone who is now fighting is that “the help is coming.”
Joining Biden was Janet Yellen, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, who described the economic crisis as an “American tragedy.”
Yellen said many people struggle to put food on the table and pay their bills and rent.
Steps are needed to prevent the recession from continuing and not causing further devastation, added Yellen, 74.
If approved by the Senate, where her appointment is well received, she will become the first female Secretary of the Treasury.
The 78-year-old Biden also introduced the other key members of his future team, made up of minority and female representatives, many of whom will be the first to fill the position.
Wally Adeimo is of Nigerian descent and will be the first African-American deputy finance minister if approved by the Senate.
Niira Tanden will be the first Indian woman to serve as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Biden chose another woman, Cecilia Rose, to head the president’s board of economic advisers. She will be the first African American woman and the fourth woman to head this council.
Behind them on stage in Wilmington was Jared Bernstein, who has long been a close friend of Biden, having served as his chief economist during the early years of former President Barack Obama’s administration.
Meanwhile, Biden’s team of lawyers said President Donald Trump’s lawsuits in Georgia would not change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in that state, Reuters reported.
Trump’s campaign staff told the court that the elections in Georgia were marred by fraud and asked for a second recount after the first recount determined that Biden had won more than 12,000 votes in the state.
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