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WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden is expected to reveal his elections for several important economic positions on Monday, when he also finally receives his first classified intelligence report, an essential step in taking control of national security.
While Biden’s transition to the White House appeared to be moving forward, the president-elect was limping after breaking his foot while playing with his dog on Saturday.
The incoming administration has been hampered for weeks by President Donald Trump, who has refused to budge, claiming, without proof, that Biden’s election victory on November 3 was due to fraud.
Biden was expected to name the leading members of an economic team that will have to combat the crushing blows to American workers and businesses from the coronavirus pandemic.
Unlike Trump, who largely elected white men to key positions, Biden’s early appointments were shaping up to be vastly diverse, including an all-female communications team that unveiled Sunday night.
Biden was expected to announce Janet Yellen, who was the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve, as its Secretary of the Treasury, and Adewale Adeyemo, who would be the first black undersecretary of the Treasury.
Other members of her economics team are expected to be announced including Neera Tanden, executive director of the progressive think tank Center for American Progress, as director of the White House Budget Office, who would be the first woman of color to lead that agency, Reuters. and other informed media.[nL1N2IF0JC}[nL1N2IF0JC}[nL1N2IF0JC}[nL1N2IF0JC}
Brian Deese, who helped lead Obama’s efforts to bail out the auto industry during the 2009 financial crisis, will head the National Economic Council, the New York Times reported Sunday, drawing some criticism from progressives for his ties to Wall Street.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were also to receive their first classified daily presidential briefing on Monday, which the Trump administration had previously refused to provide. The report is the first step toward transferring responsibility for more sensitive intelligence to a new administration.
Trump, for his part, kept his fraud claims unfounded in an interview with Fox News on Sunday and with tweets on Sunday night that the social media service marked as disputed. But the Republican president, who on Thursday said he would leave the White House if Biden were formally declared the winner by the Electoral College on Dec. 14, appeared to withdraw from his combative legal stance, telling Fox he saw no way to achieve it. your case to the Supreme Court.
While most of Trump’s fellow Republicans have followed suit and refused to refer to Biden as president-elect, a Republican member of the House of Representatives appeared on Twitter Sunday night and lost his patience.
In a tweet to Trump, Rep. Paul Mitchell said: “Please, for the good of our nation, abandon these arguments without evidence or factual basis. #stopthestupid, ”he wrote.
Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Simon Lewis and Patricia Zengerle; Written by Patricia Zengerle; edited by Michelle Price and Simon Cameron-Moore
