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email Waiting for a Call From the Biden Team With a Job Offer?
The new administration will be filling thousands of jobs. There’s only one reason to say yes, but many to say no.
Now that President-elect Biden has announced most of his Cabinet nominees the transition team is turning its attention to the all-important sub-cabinet hundreds of deputy secretaries, agency heads, assistant secretaries and other key positions across the executive branch. In the coming weeks, individuals across the nation will be waiting for the phone to ring with an invitation to join the new administration and many others will be taken by surprise when such a call comes.
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25 Indian Americans in Joe Biden team to make new govt ‘look like the country’
As US President-elect Joe Biden continues to fill his government structure in a way that will “look like the country”, at least 25 Indian Americans are set to hold roles in the new administration, with at least 15 in key policy positions. Updated: December 24, 2020 3:46:42 pm
Vivek Murthy (left), Ali Zaidi among names selected. (AP)
It is not just US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. As US President-elect Joe Biden continues to fill his government structure in a way that will “look like the country”, at least 25 Indian Americans are set to hold roles in the new administration, with at least 15 in key policy positions.
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Wittman statement on voting YES to support First District Priorities, families, small businesses, and provide greater pandemic relief
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) issued the following statement after voting in favor of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, which fully funds the government through September 30th, 2021, and provides additional COVID-19 pandemic relief, relief to small businesses, American workers, and more.
“The government funding and COVID-19 relief package Congress passed today is a critical funding bill that funds many of the priorities of the First Congressional District including increased and stable funding for our military, support for our Veterans, investments in broadband and our rural communities, assistance to our Law Enforcement Officers, and much-needed relief to millions of Americans.
Dec 22, 2020 12:01 AM EDT
New federal data showed U.S. life expectancy was inching upward in 2019 before the deadly coronavirus pandemic hit, and after years of devastation brought on by the opioid crisis eroded the average American lifespan.
Life expectancy in the U.S. was 78.8 years in 2019, up a tenth of a year over 2018, said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics.
The new report released Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through the National Center for Health Statistics, paints a picture of how Americans were living and dying before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. and killed at least 320,000 in this country so far. To get that picture, researchers for the federal government gathered details from millions of death certificates.