Gagribal Girl Goes To White House As Joe Biden Aide
SRINAGAR: US President-elect Joe Biden has picked a young Kashmir born lady as one of the key functionary in his White House’s Digital Strategy Team. Her name is Aisha Shah and she is the daughter of Kashmiri parents and belongs to one of Kashmir’s influential families.
Aisha Shah, one of the members of the digital strategy team in Joe Biden administration.
Ms Shah would be the Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy, which would be headed by Rob Flaherty, Director of Digital Strategy, according to an announcement by the Biden transition team.
12:16 p.m. ET, December 28, 2020
The House will vote this afternoon to override Trump s veto on the National Defense Authorization Act
From CNN s Lauren Fox Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images
Following President-elect Joe Biden s remarks this afternoon on national security, the House is set to vote at 5 p.m. ET on two key items, one of which will test the loyalty of the Republican Party to President Trump.
The House will vote to override the President s veto on the National Defense Authorization Act. It will require a two-thirds majority vote. Republicans in leadership haven t whipped the bill. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that he won t vote to override Trump s veto even though he voted for the underlying bill.
3:50 p.m. ET, December 28, 2020
Biden says rebuilding foreign policy and national security will be a key challenge of his presidency
From CNN s Kate Sullivan and MJ Lee Mark Makela/Getty Images
President-elect Joe Biden delivered remarks today from Wilmington, Delaware, after receiving a briefing from members of his national security and foreign policy agency review teams.
According to transition officials, the briefing focused in large part on the findings of the review teams since the delayed beginning of the formal transition process. Rebuilding the full set of our instruments of foreign policy and national security is a key challenge that the Vice President-elect Harris and I will face upon taking office, starting with our diplomacy, Biden said. Today we heard from the leaders of the state and USAID agency review teams about the critical early investment we ll need to make in our diplomacy, in our development efforts and in rebuilding our alliances, to