President-elect Joe Biden, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 8 local time, announced the nominations for Secretary of Commerce and Labor in his new government.
Less than two weeks before Biden officially took office as President of the United States, these two nominations mark the completion of Biden’s nominations for all cabinet ministers.
Here are all the candidates nominated by Biden’s new government cabinet:
White House Chief of Staff: Ron Klain, a longtime Biden aide.
Treasury Secretary: Janet Yellen, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Attorney General: Merrick Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals.
Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin, 67, retired African-American general.
Secretary of State: Anthony Blinken, a longtime ally of Biden.
Director of the Environmental Protection Agency: Michael S., North Carolina’s top environmental regulatory officer. Regan).
Presidential Climate Envoy: John Kerry, a former Secretary of State.
White House Climate Envoy: Gina McCarthy, who served as the director of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama era.
Home Secretary: Representative Deb Haaland.
Secretary of Labor: Marty Walsh, Mayor of Boston.
Minister of Commerce: Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island.
Homeland Security Secretary: Alejandro Mayorkas, if approved by the Senate, will become the first Latino immigrant to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Obama served as White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough.
Minister of Transportation: Pete Buttigieg, the youngest candidate to run for the 2020 presidential election.
Secretary of Energy: Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a black diplomat.
Director of National Intelligence: Avril Haines, who will become the first woman to serve as the Director of National Intelligence if the nomination is confirmed.
National Security Advisor: Jake Sullivan, who served as a national security adviser during the Obama administration.
Director of the U.S. Office of Administration and Budget: Neera Tanden, who, if confirmed, will become the first director of women of color and South Asian Americans in the history of the department.
White House Press Secretary: Jennifer Psaki, Senior Advisor to Biden’s Transition Team
White House Chief Economic Adviser: Brian Deese.
U.S. Trade Representative: Katherine Tai, Chinese-American, Chief Trade Counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Director of the U.S. Health Bureau: Vivek Murthy, who served as the director of the health department.
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Xavier Becerra, California Attorney General.
Director of the White House Committee on Domestic Policy: Susan Rice, former national security adviser of the United States and former ambassador of the United States to the United Nations.
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture during the Obama era.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Ohio Representative Marcia Fudge.
Secretary of Education: Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s highest education official.
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Rochelle Walensky, Professor at Harvard Medical School.
COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Advisor to the Chair: Jeff Zients, who served as director of the National Economic Council and an economic adviser to President Obama.
Chief Medical Advisor for COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Deputy Chief of Staff: Bruce Rere, a long-time adviser to Biden.
