WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary, according to four people familiar with the plans.
Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet post. At 38, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would also add a youthful dynamic to an incoming administration that is so far dominated in large part by leaders with decades of Washington experience.
Granholm, 61, served as Michigan’s attorney general from 1999 to 2003 and two terms as Michigan’s first female governor, from 2003 to 2010. She was a supporter of Biden’s presidential bid and has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results, accusing him of “poisoning democracy.”
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Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOT s top spot, where despite his thin transportation résumé, the smooth-talking former heartland mayor could help President-elect Joe Biden sell Congress on a massive job-creating investment in infrastructure that would also attempt to blunt the effects of climate change.
Buttigieg will arrive at the Department of Transportation s Navy Yard headquarters with little experience dealing with the various appendages of official Washington, but he ll hardly be the first person in that position. The White House could follow the mold set by former DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, another former mayor, who appointed as his chief of staff Sarah Feinberg, a savvy operator who knew Washington, D.C., and helped Foxx hit the ground running.
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