Cory Booker, D-N.J., a Black member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and presidential candidate, was a key sponsor of sweeping criminal justice legislation aimed at cutting mandatory minimum sentences and reducing the federal prison population. Abrams has been a fierce advocate for voting rights after running an unsuccessful but high-profile campaign for governor of Georgia, a state that was surprisingly competitive for Biden. Stacey Abrams, a Black former member of the Georgia Legislature who was among those considered as Biden’s running mate.In subsequent testimony before a Senate committee, Yates recounted how former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn opened himself to possible blackmail when he lied about his pre-inaugural contacts with a Russian ambassador. Sally Yates, a white former deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, served briefly during the Trump administration transition as acting attorney general before she was fired for refusing to support the president’s ban on immigration from Muslim countries.She dropped her presidential campaign after the South Carolina primary and endorsed Biden. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a white member of the Senate Judiciary Committee where she has been harshly critical of Attorney General William Barr. Here are some of the choices Biden faces in filling his cabinet: “I have no interest in going to Washington,” Cuomo told NBC’s “Today.” But he rejected the possibility the next day. Andrew Cuomo, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development for President Bill Clinton, was being considered for a Cabinet post. Michael Bennet of Colorado, a former superintendent of Denver public schools, told The Denver Post he wasn't interested in becoming Education secretary.Īxios reported Oct. “I think under these circumstances you’re not likely to see any Democratic senators being chosen for the Cabinet.” “None of that is going to happen,” Ornstein said Thursday during an AEI panel on what to expect in the next administration.
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont in his Cabinet. But if Republicans retain control of the Senate – the balance depends on undecided races in Georgia and elsewhere – Ornstein said Biden would be unable to place progressives such as Sen. Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, said getting Biden's Cabinet in place during the first 100 days of his administration would be a top priority for his team. "While I applaud those folks for doing the right thing, that doesn't mean they deserve a spot in a Democratic administration," Morgan said. Alex Morgan, executive director of the Progressive Turnout Project, said that it “might depend on the person but that activists want credible advocates for issues such as health care, climate and justice." 28, in phrasing repeated often during the campaign.īut progressives are skeptical about inviting Republicans into the Cabinet. “I’m running as a proud Democrat – but I will govern as an American president – to unite and to heal,” Biden told supporters in Tampa on Oct. Susan Molinari and Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard, now at Quibi. Republican speakers at the Democratic National Convention included former Ohio Gov. In a June 10 column in USA TODAY, Biden said: “Across the board – from our classrooms to our courtrooms to the president’s Cabinet – we have to make sure that our leadership and our institutions actually look like America.” 17 fundraiser that Biden’s Cabinet would reflect the country, with women and people of color in leadership positions.
Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, told supporters at an Oct. But speculation during the final weeks of the campaign ranged from former officials from President Barack Obama’s administration to former rivals in the Democratic primaries and even Republicans. After 36 years in the Senate and eight years as vice president, Biden now has an opportunity to tap a broad range of government officials and policy experts to lead the federal departments.īiden’s campaign declined to discuss prospects for Cabinet posts, saying those decisions would wait until after the election. President-elect Joe Biden campaigned to have a government as diverse as America.
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