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Biden risks liberal wrath in naming Bruce Reed to senior White House post Print this article President-elect Joe Biden risks alienating liberal Democrats with his decision to appoint Bruce Reed as White House deputy chief of staff. Biden announced Tuesday that Reed, his chief of staff from 2011 to 2013 when he was vice president and before Reed joined his 2020 campaign as a senior adviser, would remain in his inner circle. That's despite far-Left Democrats imploring Biden since October not to bring Reed back to the White House. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats...

A theory about his strangest nominees and appointments Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If the staggered unveiling of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet has done little to enthuse the (broadly defined) left, it has also not yet been quite as disastrous as some predicted (and that will remain true so long as Rahm Emanuel remains outside the administration). What it has been, so far, is very puzzling. Take what happened to Marcia Fudge. The Ohio representative was openly lobbying to be made secretary of agriculture, in order to focus the department’s attention on hunger and food security. She...