Career Official Expected to Temporarily Lead Justice Dept.
The official is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to take over while his attorney general nominee, Merrick Garland, seeks Senate confirmation.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice to lead the Justice Department, Monty Wilkinson, has decades of experience there.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
Jan. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. was expected to select a longtime career civil servant at the Justice Department to serve as the acting attorney general after he is sworn in on Wednesday, according to a person briefed on the decision.
Mr. Biden’s choice, Monty Wilkinson, has been overseeing human resources, security planning and the library at the Justice Department and is unknown even to most Washington insiders. That low profile all but guarantees that was not involved in the myriad political scandals that defined the Justice Department under President Trump.
The Biden administration is also expected to name Rohit Chopra as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in moves that would bring Obama-era regulators to oversee key financial agencies.
The President-elect will nominate Eric S. Lander to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a post left vacant by President Trump for 18 months.
Top Official at Indian Health Service Will Step Down
The next director of the health service will inherit an agency that has drawn intense criticism for its failures to provide adequate care both before and during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rear Adm. Michael Weahkee said in a letter this week that he would step down to allow the Biden administration to appoint new leadership.Credit.Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
By Mark Walker
Jan. 14, 2021
The director of the Indian Health Service has said that he will resign, giving President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. a chance to install new leadership at an agency that has drawn intense criticism for its failures to provide adequate care to tribal communities both before and during the pandemic.