The Finance 202: Biden fills out economic team as Trump s coalition continues to implode Tory Newmyer
President-elect Joe Biden’s government is coming together as President Trump’s falls apart. The incoming president will nominate Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) for labor secretary. He is also set to tap Isabel Guzman, director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, to lead the Small Business Administration; and Don Graves, a former economic advisor who went on to work at KeyBank, to serve as deputy commerce secretary, my colleagues report. The Cabinet picks balance Raimondo, a former venture capitalist who has clashed with organized labor, against Walsh, who has championed the needs of workers. And they amplify a signal Biden has been sending with other personnel decisions that his administration will thread the moderate and liberal wings of his party as he seeks to restore st
Marty Walsh (Courtesy Biden-Harris Transition)
Boston mayor chosen as Secretary of Labor, Rhode Island governor for Secretary of Commerce
Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as Secretary of Labor and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to serve as Secretary of Commerce. Additionally, he has nominated Don Graves as Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Isabel Guzman as Small Business Administrator. Graves is a banker who served on President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Guzman is director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate.
Walsh is in his second term as mayor of Boston. Prior to that position, he was a legislator for the 13th Sufffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, co-chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Labor Party Caucus and co-chair for the Special Commission on Public Construction Reform. He was also president of the Laborers’ Union Local 223, joining the union at age 21. He was elected secretary-tre
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) President-elect Joe Biden on Friday introduced the governor of Rhode Island, the mayor of Boston and a small-business advocate from California as the newest members of his economic team.
The formal announcement came a day after his transition team announced Gov. Gina Raimondo as his choice to become commerce secretary, Mayor Marty Walsh as his candidate for labor secretary and Isabel Guzman as his pick to lead the Small Business Administration.
One of Biden s top challenges after he takes office Jan. 20 will be to nurse an economy reeling from the coronavirus pandemic back to health. He said the newest members of his economic team will help achieve that “by building an economy where every American is in on the deal.”
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Biden to nominate Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo for Commerce, Boston mayor Marty Walsh for Labour
Ms Gina Raimondo (left) is Rhode Island s first woman governor while Mr Marty Walsh was elected Boston mayor in 2013.PHOTOS: NYTIMES, REUTERS
PublishedJan 8, 2021, 9:52 am SGT
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Welcome to POLITICO’s 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history.
JOE BIDEN has more than 1,200 jobs to fill that require Senate confirmation.
And he’s going to do that much more quickly thanks to Democrats’ victories in Georgia Tuesday.