Who says the president-elect isn’t a political innovator?
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Secretary of the interior isn’t the most high-profile Cabinet post, but it might be the most glaring example of how President-elect Joe Biden’s selection process is going awry. The clear front-runner for the job is New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland, who was elected to the House in 2018. Since then, she’s won the praise of tribal leaders, progressive lawmakers, and even some Republicans for her consensus-driven approach to Indigenous issues and public lands. If nominated, Haaland would also be the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior a potent historical move, given the department’s troubled history with tribal communities.
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 2:29 pm
After it was announced that the Biden camp had selected
a Raytheon board member as his secretary of defense, I
joked
in my last article that it would be more honest if
Raytheon itself was Biden s Pentagon chief since the US
Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people anyway.
Raytheon for defense secretary, Boeing for secretary of
state, Goldman Sachs for secretary treasurer, ExxonMobile
head of the EPA, Amazon for CIA director and Google for
director of national intelligence. Waka waka, I m so
silly.
Anyway, since that rant was published NPR has
reported that the the next US director of agriculture