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Top White House positions such as chief of staff, national security adviser and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as well as Cabinet posts such as secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence, have gone to people who worked in the Obama administration.
And while Biden has put an emphasis on diversity of race and gender for his incoming administration giving a handful of top roles to women and people of color his choices have included few new faces, with top positions going to people he served alongside in the Obama years or worked with before that.
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Published: 13 Dec 2020 04:49 PM BdST
Updated: 13 Dec 2020 04:49 PM BdST President-elect Joe Biden listens as Janet Yellen, Biden s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, speaks during an event at The Queen theater, in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020.
The head of the NAACP had a blunt warning for President-elect Joe Biden when Biden met with civil rights leaders in Wilmington, Delaware, this past week. );
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Nominating Tom Vilsack, a secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration, to run the department again would enrage Black farmers and threaten Democratic hopes of winning two Senate runoffs in Georgia, the NAACP head, Derrick Johnson, told Biden.
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