Joe Biden and Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris are set to formally nominate appointees for their economy team on Friday at 1:30 pm ET.
On Thursday, Biden and Harris announced that the appointees are Gov.
Gina Raimondo (D-RI) for Secretary of Commerce, Boston Mayor
Marty Walsh for Secretary of Labor,
Isabel Guzman for Small Business Administrator, and
Don Graves, Biden’s former counselor, for Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
Biden also commented on the mob that violently attacked the Capitol during a Thursday press conference, during which he pronounced the riot “an unprecedented assault on our democracy.”
“He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of democracy from the outset,” he added of President
Joe Biden names two Indian-Americans in National Security Council of White House
Biden also named Shanthi Kalathil, as Coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights in his National Security Council. US President-elect Joe Biden | Photo Credit: AP
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia and Tarun Chhabra as senior director for Technology and National Security, as he announced several key appointments to the National Security Council of the White House.
Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition s State Department Agency Review Team.