President-Elect Biden Fills Out His Team: Reuters
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has selected people for his Cabinet, his White House team and other top jobs in his administration ahead of being sworn into office on Wednesday.
Here are some of the people Biden has called on to run the US government.
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: WILLIAM BURNS
During more than three decades as a US diplomat, including as deputy secretary of state under President Barack Obama, Burns honed specialties in Russia and the Middle East and was ambassador to Russia.
ATTORNEY GENERAL: MERRICK GARLAND
A federal appeals court judge since 1997, Garland was nominated by Obama for the US Supreme Court in 2016, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to consider the nomination in a presidential election year.
When President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on Jan 20, 2017, he promised an end to “American carnage,” painting a bleak picture of a divided, dysfunctional nation he had insisted that he alone could fix.
WASHINGTON Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the U.S. Senate, the chamber’s top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one…
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INAUGURATION DAY A new era of American politics will begin today when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office. The inauguration will be like no other: It will happen in the wake of insurrection in Washington, and amid a pandemic that has killed 400,000 people in the United States.