Biden leans on Obama-era talent for top posts
By Morgan Chalfant - 12/13/20 12:30 PM EST
resident-elect Joe Biden is moving to round out his Cabinet and White House staff and is leaning heavily on officials who served in the Obama administration, and with whom he worked before, to fill out his senior team.
Top White House positions such as chief of staff, national security adviser and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as well as Cabinet posts such as secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence, have gone to people who worked in the Obama administration.
And while Biden has put an emphasis on diversity of race and gender for his incoming administration — giving a handful of top roles to women and people of color — his choices have included few new faces, with top positions going to people he served alongside in the Obama years or worked with before that.
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