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US Executive Branch Update – January 26, 2021 Tuesday, January 26, 2021
This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases.
POTUS’ Schedule
The US President (POTUS) and Vice President’s (VPOTUS) daily schedules are subject to change.
9:45 a.m. EST – The President and The Vice President receive the President’s Daily Brief | Oval Office
2:00 p.m. EST – The President delivers remarks outlining his racial equity agenda and signs executive actions; The Vice President also attends | State Dining Room
VPOTUS’ Schedule
9:45 a.m. EST – the Vice President will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.
President Joe Biden has appointed Dev Jagadesan as the acting head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the White House announced.
With all the senior political appointees in key positions leaving office after Donald Trump s term ended Jan. 20, Biden made interim appointments pending the Senate approval of his candidates. Most of them are career employees, rather than political appointees.
An experienced deputy general counsel with a demonstrated history of working in the international trade and development industry, Jagadesan has spent the last two decades with the USIDFC.
He started at the corporation in July 2001 as associate general counsel, and continued to move up the latter with other roles such as acting general counsel, acting chief executive officer and president, and deputy general counsel, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sources at the Transport and Roads Ministry, as well as KeNHA, now say the project may not take off, as it has been pushed to the back burner. Despite the major delays and other pointers that things are not rosy, Bechtel projects optimism, with officials telling The Standard they remain in touch with Kenyan State agencies.
They say the firm is eager to start work. The company was however cagey with details, only offering a one-line response to the list of questions asked.
“We are still interested and we continue to work with KeNHA and the National Treasury to start work,” said Bechtel, without going into details.