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The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Wednesday the appointment of his adviser Ron Klain, very critical of Donald Trump’s management of the pandemic, as chief of staff of the White House.
In a statement, Biden said Klain has been an “invaluable” advisor, highlighting in particular the work they did together during the 2009 economic crisis and the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
“His vast and varied experience and ability to work with people from across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff when we face this time of crisis. ” added the president-elect, who made the fight against the pandemic one of his government’s priorities.
Coordinated the White House response to Ebola in 2014
Klain, a lawyer by profession, was his chief of staff in the first years as vice president of the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017), and also coordinated the White House response to Ebola in 2014.
The Democratic politician has been a harsh critic of the way President Donald Trump handled the pandemic, underestimating its importance and initially devaluing protection and screening measures, such as mask use and large-scale testing.
The United States is currently the country with the most deaths (240,857) caused by the new coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, responsible for covid-19, and with the most confirmed cases of contagion (more than 10.3 million).
Klain is also a veteran of the Capitol ‘corridors’, an environment he knows well, having worked in Biden’s Congressional office when he was a senator from Delaware in 1989, after graduating from Harvard Law School.
The now-elected president-elect chief of staff, a position he also held under former Vice President Al Gore, has long been considered the most likely option to lead Biden’s team in the White House.
The Democrat is expected to announce in the coming days his main collaborators in the White Housedespite Trump refusing to accept defeat and has taken legal action to reverse the election results.
