Biden Team Considers Politically Diverse Cabinet Appointees
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From the Left
Meet the contenders for Biden’s CabinetIn the next two and half months, Joe Biden needs to build a governing team to help him tackle an historic pandemic and rebuild the economy — all while winning approval from what's likely to be a Republican-controlled Senate and holding together an unruly coalition of Democrats.
It's a task that will be nearly impossible to pull off.
The Biden transition team has been vetting potential candidates for months and will present the president-elect with potential choices in the coming days. Biden is expected to focus first on posts involving...
From the Center
Republicans who could serve in a Biden governmentBill Clinton had Republican William Cohen. George W. Bush had Democrat Norm Mineta. Barack Obama had Republicans Ray LaHood and Chuck Hagel.
Now President-elect Joe Biden, who called for ending this “grim era of demonization in America,” is likewise signaling he might reach across the aisle to name Republicans to a Cabinet post and other key slots in his administration.
It would be a return to bipartisanship, tradition and normalcy that has been missing in the Trump administration. President Trump, who vilified his Democratic opponents and still has...
From the Right
Biden eyes Republican and Democratic lawmakers for administration postsPresident-elect Joe Biden is eyeing a bipartisan list of 30 members of Congress who are known for working across the aisle for key administration posts, The Post has learned.
The Biden transition team is looking at 20 lawmakers serving in the House of Representatives and 10 in the Senate who received the US Chamber of Commerce’s Jefferson-Hamilton 2020 award for bipartisanship.
Half the awardees are Republicans and half are Democrats.
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