In Tuesday’s statement, Biden’s team confirmed previous speculation that former White Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon would become deputy chief of staff. This year, at the age of 44, she became the first woman in US history to lead a successful Democrat effort to win the White House. In the past, she worked in lower positions in both Barack Obama’s campaigns.
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Other advisers will also be Biden’s campaign leaders – Cedric Richmond and Steve Richetti. Richmond will leave his seat in the House of Representatives to represent Louisiana for a new role. His task should be to communicate with Congress, focusing on the issue of ethnic minorities.
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Biden’s confidant Mike Donilon and Dana Remus, who helped him before the election, also earned the position of advisor. Relations between the White House, US governments and local governments will be in charge of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who previously worked for the campaign of incoming Vice President Kamala Harris and subsequently helped Biden with the election.
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The operation in the Oval Office will be managed by Annie Tomasini, another member of Biden’s campaign. Anthony Bernal will advise First Lady Jill Biden and Julissa Reynos Pantaleon will be its Chief Human Resources Officer.
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The AP warns that the names released on Tuesday are the first of several hundred new employees that Biden will hire to join his team in the coming weeks to help him realize his political vision. Already last week, the president-elect appointed his adviser, Ron Klain, as the future chief of staff of the White House.
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So far, the new nominees have fulfilled Biden’s commitment to maintaining diversity in his team – four of the senior officials announced on Tuesday are not white and five of them are women.
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It is still unclear about the composition of Biden’s future government, where the filling of individual positions must be approved by senators. It is not yet known whether Democrats or Republicans will have a majority in the Senate in the next term. This will be decided by the second rounds of two fights in Georgia at the beginning of January. According to the AP, Biden should start publishing the first names of cabinet members in the coming weeks.
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