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Biden fills out his national security team with nearly two dozen appointments Laura Kelly © Getty Images Biden fills out his national security team with nearly two dozen appointments President-elect Joe Biden on Friday announced nearly two dozen appointments to his incoming National Security Council (NSC), filling out his staff with less than two weeks to go before his inauguration. The appointees are largely veterans of the Obama administration, with many having served previ...

US President-elect Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans in National Security Council FOLLOW US ON: US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia and Tarun Chhabra as senior director for Technology and National Security, as he announced several key appointments to the National Security Council of the White House. Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transitions...

Yellen sets out to build Treasury team with Obama alumni Saleha Mohsin and Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg News Janet Yellen, former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the American Economic Association and Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank can be patient as it assesses risks to a U.S. economy and will adjust policy quick...

Yellen Sets Out to Build Treasury Team With Obama Alumni Bloomberg 12/18/2020 Saleha Mohsin and Liz Capo McCormick (Bloomberg) -- Janet Yellen is focusing on several Obama-administration alumni for key posts in the U.S. Treasury, according to people familiar with the matter, as critical decisions loom on everything from debt funding to international economic ties. © Bloomberg Powell, Bernanke & Yellen Speak At ASSA 2019 Annual Meeting Janet Yellen Photographer: Elijah Nouv...

Blog Blog Blog Blog 11 Dec, 2020 Author Jacob Holzman President-elect Joe Biden could try to unilaterally impose carbon taxes on imported goods or pressure countries into climate action with the threat of carbon penalties for dirtier imports by taking advantage of a decades-old trade law made popular under President Donald Trump, according to certain legal observers and members of Bidens transition team. While campaigning to earn the Democratic presid...

Blocking a lot of promotions by career officers i think hes really not generated the kind of goodwill, hed need for the reforms to be successful. >> peter, i want to turn for china and its relationship with north korea. certainly front and center. the president saying this is the biggest national security issue we face. caught red-handed, very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea. there will never be a friendly solution if this continues to happen. ill add, a door remai...

The timing of it as well over the last couple weeks. the focus when you look at the administrations foreign policy agenda has been much more focused than nikki haley. what do you make of secretary tillerson asserting himself in this way? >> well, thanks for having me on, david. i think this op-ed is clearly an effort to defend a legacy of a first year that has been the subject of a lot of criticism by both democrats and republicans. tillerson is saying, look, we have accomplished signature wins ...

Time line. again, i see the pressures success. but the time line may be a little too long. and that puts the onus on the trump organization to come up with creative thinking here. >> peter, you mentioned the circumstances surrounding secretary of state rex tillerson within the organization. "the wall street journal" citing a report by the brookings institution about turnover at the senior levels of trump administration. 34% of them have turned over in the first year of his term. well aware of wh...

Trying to push him out. i think there are a number of people at the white house that would like to replace him with former cia director mike pompeo. i think tillerson say frighter. i think he wants to stick it out another couple of months or a year to kind of build on the first year and see if he can notch a couple of wins. i dont know, i havent talked to him about but i wouldnt be surprised if we see him continue fighting for at least a few months to come. >> peter, thank you for the time. pete...

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