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Biden cabinet a return of 'crisis tested' career bureaucrats with Ivy League stamp
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IANS | 24 Nov, 2020
The career bureaucrats are roaring back. When US President-elect Joe
Biden formally introduces his national security team to the nation on
Tuesday, it will signal a stark departure of Donald Trump-era theatrics
and the return to power of what the Biden team likes to call
"crisis-tested" subject matter experts who are expected to bring a more
traditional style to governing.
Ivy League credentials, long
years of Washington experience and the unmistakable stamp of the Obama
years come as a package deal in the first raft of Biden's staff picks.
Biden, however, will be the first President since Ronald Reagan not to
have an Ivy League degree at the undergraduate or graduate level.
The
first reveal of Biden's Cabinet also adds to a growing list of women
and people of colour breaking historic barriers even as the
President-elect stacks his A team to reflect multicultural America.
"These
officials will start working immediately to rebuild our institutions,
renew and reimagine American leadership to keep Americans safe at home
and abroad, and address the defining challenges of our time -- from
infectious disease, to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber threats,
and climate change," is how the Biden transition describes the coming
shift.
Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken has passed
through Harvard, Columbia Law, National Security Council, State
Department, Senate Foreign Relations, and the Vice President's office.
Treasury nominee Janet Yellen studied at Brown and Yale, led the Federal Reserve and was the White House CEA chair.
Department
of Homeland Security nominee Alejandro Mayorkas has checked off
multiple boxes: Berkeley, Loyola Marymount Law, US attorney, DHS, CIS,
WilmerHale.
Chief of Staff choice Ron Klain has journeyed through
Georgetown, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerkship, House, Senate, Chief
of Staff to VP, and Ebola czar in the Obama administration.
Incoming
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is a career veteran who
has served at the CIA, the State Department, and the NSA. Haines studied
at University of Chicago and Georgetown Law.
Next National
Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is a double Yale graduate who went on to
win a Rhodes Scholarship before working at the State Department and the
White House.
Praise is pouring in. This one's from Hillary
Clinton's Twitter: "The incoming administration could not have chosen
better personnel for the foreign policy and national security teams."
Susan
Rice, former Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security
Advisor wrote on her social feeds that Antony Blinken "will make a
superb Secretary of State and do our nation proud".
Rice joins a
long list of experienced government officials echoing of relief amidst
their hope for a return to a less chaotic method. "Competence, decency,
strength, and respect for our career professionals are coming back," she
posted.
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