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For the first time, the United States Security Policy Council, NSC, has a senior person working full time on the climate crisis. The fact that Joe Biden has nominated former Secretary of State John Kerry to the job indicates that climate policy will be a priority for the Biden administration.
“The United States will soon have a government that sees the climate crisis as the acute national security threat that it really is,” Kerry said in a comment after the nomination.
Was expected that Joe Biden would turn to Democratic veterans and the establishment for nominations for important political appointments. He is not known as an adventurous politician and if there is a common thread between the nominations so far, it is avoiding risky appointments.
Overall, Biden’s planned staff reflects a clear ambition to return to a more foreign foreign policy and an attempt to heal relations with America’s allies, after four years in which Donald Trump ended several major international collaborations.
Biden’s future foreign minister, Antony Blinken, is also a veteran of foreign policy, firmly rooted in the center of the party. Blinken has previously advocated for military intervention during the Obama administration, both in Libya and Syria. This could lead to some criticism from both the left and the right, at a time when many Americans prefer a more withdrawn global role for the US military.
Another expected choice It’s Jake Sullivan, who’s nominated as a security policy advisor. Sullivan has been a key foreign policy figure for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Obama discussed, among other things, Biden’s foreign policy challenges and mentioned that Trump “caused damage” to US foreign policy, which he now hopes Biden can heal.
Bid nominations It also appears to be an attempt to designate an administration that better reflects America’s diversity. As a UN ambassador, she nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a black woman who worked for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and who has long advocated for greater diversity at the State Department in Washington.
Avril Haines, formerly known as the first woman to be deputy director of the CIA, is appointed director of the United States intelligence services.
Biden also nominates Alejandro Mayorkas to the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, which under Trump has become a powerful institution responsible for millions of deportations of undocumented immigrants. It is symbolically significant that a Latin American can replace the controversial Chad Wolf who now heads the authority.
