Donald Trump resigned himself, Monday, November 23, to giving the green light for the start of the transition, without yet acknowledging his defeat. As indifferent to the moods of the outgoing president, Joe Biden advances. After the appointment on November 11 of the one who will be his main right-hand man, Ronald Klain, a very close, recognized expert of the federal state, then that of his close guard at the White House, on November 17, where we find his former campaign director, Jen O’Malley Dillon, as well as two longtime advisers, Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon, the president-elect unveiled on Monday the names of part of his future cabinet.
The proximity to the former Democratic vice-president, the concern for competence, parity and diversity appear as the main criteria of choice. Tony Blinken, 58, appointed to the State Department, worked with Joe Biden when the latter was chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. He followed him in 2009 with the title of National Security Advisor to the Vice President, before becoming the Deputy National Security Advisor to Barack Obama, then joining in 2014 the seat of American diplomacy as deputy. to the Secretary of State.
Tony Blinken had been replaced with Joe Biden by Jake Sullivan. The latter will occupy the functions of national security adviser of the future 46e president, a strategic position of the West Wing. This 43-year-old lawyer by training was political director of the State Department from 2011 to 2013. Spotted by Hillary Clinton before the latter’s first presidential candidacy in 2008, he joined Barack Obama’s team after the victory of the latter in the primary which opposed him to the one who was then senator of the State of New York.
Avril Haines, 51, the first woman to be appointed to the National Intelligence Directorate, also worked with Joe Biden when he chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2007 to 2008. After joining Barack’s National Security Council Obama in 2010, she was then the first woman to hold the post of Deputy Director of the CIA, from 2013 to 2015, before returning to the White House to succeed Tony Blinken on the National Security Council.
The climate confided to John Kerry
A former colleague of Joe Biden in the Senate who was one of his few supporters during his difficult start in the race for the Democratic primary, former Secretary of State John Kerry, 76, returns to business with the title of special envoy of the president for the climate. Signatory for the United States of the Paris agreement to fight against global warming, the former candidate for the 2004 presidential election will have the rank of secretary (minister). He will be a member of both Joe Biden’s cabinet and the National Security Council, which the president-elect touted as a first testament to the attention paid to this dossier.
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