Joe Biden has promised the most multifaceted cabinet in American history.

Foreign Minister: Antony Blinken

With gray-chested side legs, a cultured education in Paris and New York, and a degree from the prestigious Harvard and Columbia universities, Antony Blinken is the very image of an aristocratic diplomat. Blinken, 58, who has been close to Biden employees for two decades, will join the United States on the Paris Agreement, patch up the Iran deal and slow down America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Blinken was a foreign policy adviser in the Obama administration, where he argued that the United States should attack Syria when the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, killed his own people. Blinken was influenced by his own family history. His stepfather fled and survived Auschwitz. “When you are concerned about the poison gas in Syria, you inevitably think of the gas that killed my entire family,” stepfather Samuel Pisar said in an interview with Blinken.

Finance Minister: Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen becomes the Prime Minister of Finance of the United States. During his career, the 74-year-old has blown up many glass ceilings. Obama named her the first central bank governor in US history. When Yellen taught at Harvard, she was the university’s only economics professor, a time she described as “very lonely and daunting.” As president of the American Economic Association research organization, Yellen was responsible for a survey in which thousands of American economists testified about discrimination and sexual abuse in their workplaces. Yellen is said to have foreseen the US financial crisis in 2008. As finance minister, her main task will be to try to restore the US economy after the pandemic. DN US correspondent Martin Gelin describes Yellen as a “budget policy pigeon learning to advocate for generous stimulus measures.” She is married to economics professor George Akerlof, who received the Swedish Riksbank Prize for Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2001.

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Minister of the Interior: Alejandro Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas, 60, with roots in Cuba, will be the first Latin American minister to head the Department of Homeland Security. Under Trump, the Department of Security has implemented a brutal border policy that has particularly hurt asylum seekers from Latin and Central America. Mayorkas will restore confidence in authority and repeal some of the Trump administration’s immigration laws, which dramatically reduced the number of refugees admitted to the United States. Mayorkas has worked for a long time in the Ministry of Security. Under Obama, he was the main architect behind the reform that allowed the children of undocumented immigrants, the so-called dreamers, to study and work legally in the United States. Trump secured the life of his dreams by revoking his rights. Now the Mayorks will try to stabilize their situation.

Minister of Health: Xavier Becerra

A surprise! Xavier Becerra, 62, is a radical state attorney in California. In his current role, Becerra has led legal resistance work against Trump. He has started more than 100 lawsuits against Trump. Becerra fought to preserve Obama’s health care reform, but has also defended abortion rights that conservative southern states have tried to restrict. Born into a working-class family in Sacramento, northwest of San Francisco, Beccera was the first in the family to go to college. The mother emigrated to the United States from Mexico. He really has a more radical vision of American welfare that Biden – Beccera wants to nationalize the healthcare system. But he has vowed to stick with Biden’s core politics. Due to the pandemic, Becerra acquires a central role in the government. But the fact that the Minister of Health is not a doctor may disappoint some members of the union.

Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin

Lloyd Austin becomes America’s prime black defense minister. A slightly controversial choice for Biden as many politicians in the United States believe that the Pentagon’s defense headquarters is best run by someone other than a military man. (A soldier must be in retirement for seven years before he can become Secretary of Defense; Austin hopes Congress will be tolerant, as it was when Trump chose Jim Mattis as Secretary of Defense in 2017.) Austin is a recently retired four-star general. For three years he led the fight against the Islamic State in the Middle East. Austin’s first job as Secretary of Defense will be to distribute a vaccine to the American people. Biden believes Austin is qualified for that kind of large-scale crisis management: Under Obama, Austin was responsible for bringing home 150,000 American troops from Iraq.

Minister of Housing: Marcia Fudge

68-year-old African-American congressman from Ohio who plays a key role in the Biden administration in solving the widespread homelessness that has plagued the United States in the wake of the pandemic. Fudge has chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, the group of African-American congressmen who played a crucial role when the Democrats nominated Joe Biden as the party’s presidential candidate. One of the most outspoken Democrats in Congress, who did not hesitate to criticize Obama or his congressional leader, Nancy Pelosi. “I represent children who go to refrigerated schools, who don’t have food on the tables. I can’t take chances with them, ”he said. As Home Secretary, Fudge will seek to recreate a housing policy that protects American minorities and makes it difficult for homeowners to discriminate on the basis of skin color and sexuality.

Minister of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack

Vilsack is Biden’s most conservative ministerial election to date. The incoming Secretary of Agriculture was Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture for eight years. Under Trump, Vilsack has served as head of the Dairy Export Council, thus representing the interests of the American agricultural industry. The left flank of the Democrats wants the Agriculture Ministry to direct more interest and money to poverty and climate problems. They see Vilsack as a brake pad, too controlled by the backward agricultural unions.

Minister for War Veterans: Denis McDonough

Shortly before Obama took office in 2009, a foreign policy adviser absolutely wanted Obama to learn how to do a decent job. This militarily disciplined employee was Denis McDonough, a “long and knobby” wolf with “prominent chin, sunken eyes, and gray hair that made him look older than thirty-nine,” as Obama portrays McDonough in his recent memoir “An Engagement.” . country. “McDonough, who will be the next United States Secretary of War, grew up in a Catholic family with eleven children in the small town of Stillwater, Minnesota. In the White House, where he was promoted to chief of staff during his second term. of Obama, McDonough tore harder than anyone. His “relationship with his work” was a “kind of ritual and a form of self-denial,” Obama wrote. Now McDonough will fight so “in hell” for the country’s war veterans it will guarantee them the “medical attention, respect and dignity they deserve.”

Minister of Transportation: Pete Buttigieg

The openly gay prime minister in a US presidential cabinet. Towards the end of the Democratic primary, the elderly Biden and Buttigieg, 38, were reconciled in a tender father-son relationship. Biden said several times that Buttigieg reminded him of his late son Beau; the best judgment you can get from the incoming president. The Minister of Transport may seem like a marginal ministerial position. But the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Major Pete, leads the Biden government’s climate work. The Ministry of Transport regulates emissions from automobile traffic. There are 250 million passenger cars in the United States, and automobile traffic is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country.

Minister of Energy: Jennifer Granholm

The future US Minister of Energy has his roots in Robertsfors, the small Västerbotten utility community that gave Sweden the Sahara Hotnights and Maud Olofsson. Jennifer Granholm’s great-grandfather, Anders, was president of the Robertsfors municipal assembly. Jennifer Granholm herself was born in Vancouver, Canada, where her grandfather emigrated in the early 1900s. Family history has been of great importance to his political involvement, he wrote on Twitter the other day. “My grandfather shot himself in despair when he couldn’t find a job to support his family. My father was three years old at the time. My grandmother became a single mother of three children, living in extreme rural poverty in a cabin without running water ”. Granholm is a former governor of Michigan, the center of the American auto industry. Biden hopes that Granholm can balance two interests: preserving the support of the white industrial working class in the Midwest. And at the same time, reshaping the traditional Rust Belt manufacturing industry in a more environmentally friendly direction with a focus on renewable energy sources.

Home Secretary: Deb Haaland

Deb Haaland, a 60-year-old congresswoman from New Mexico, represents the Native American population. “A voice like mine has never before been a minister in the cabinet or head of the Home Office,” Haaland tweeted after the nomination. As Minister of the Interior, Haaland will represent the government in contact with indigenous peoples and will ultimately be responsible for the land masses, educational policy and finances of the tribes. As Secretary of the Interior, she is also responsible for all 62 of the United States’ national parks. Vast areas like Yellowstone in the Rocky Mountains in the western United States are popular tourist destinations with preserved ecosystems and, at the same time, politically charged places, when the earth was inhabited by indigenous peoples.