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The White House April 23 said that President Joe Biden has announced the nominations of six individuals for key administration posts, including Indian American Rajesh Nayak.
Nayak was named as the nominee for assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Labor, the White House said in a news release.
Nayak is currently serving as a senior adviser at the United States Department of Labor. He previously spent seven years at the labor department in the Obama-Biden administration, serving in a range of senior roles including senior counsel and deputy assistant secretary for policy.
Later, as deputy chief of staff, Nayak advised the secretary of labor on the departmentâs workforce development, worker protection and counter-trafficking programs, and led the departmentâs employee engagement efforts, his bio said.
Regulatory Agencies
The President’s choice of a former Obama administration official to serve as the top policy director at the Department of Labor signals the advent of a progressive regulatory agenda.
Currently serving as a Senior Advisor, Rajesh Nayak was nominated by Biden on April 23 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor, where, if confirmed, he would help develop and advance policymaking priorities of the Biden administration’s DOL, including regulatory rulemaking efforts.
One apparent area of interest to Nayak is modernizing the regulatory rulemaking process and pushing for more progressive regulation. In an April 2020 report, “OIRA 2.0: How Regulatory Review Can Help Respond to Existential Threats” for the Great Democracy Initiative that Nayak coauthored with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute, and in a follow-up piece in
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in his Administration:
Donald Remy, Nominee for Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department of Health and Human Services
Solomon Greene, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helaine Greenfeld, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice
Rajesh Nayak, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor
Kimberly Jones, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences
The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in his Administration:
Donald Remy, Nominee for Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department of Health and Human Services
Solomon Greene, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helaine Greenfeld, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice
Rajesh Nayak, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor
Kimberly Jones, Nominee for Member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences