The latest appointments of Joe Biden in his future administration reinforce all the concerns of progressives who had embarked on the Democratic primary campaign to support Bernie Sanders. The appointment of Brian Deese as head of the National Economic Council at the White House has thus generated a lot of excitement within the organization of young conservationists Sunrise. Deese will indeed leave the upper floors of the building of BlackRock, the juggernaut investment company of Wall Street and the entire financial planet, to become the main economic adviser to the White House. Young ecologists gathered in front of the BlackRock building in Manhattan are indignant: “They are the main shareholders of the biggest polluters on the planet. Their recruitment is incompatible with a real policy of change. “ The quality brandished by Deese as head of the “sustainable development” department of the financial juggernaut cannot calm the slightest concern. The new recruit will rub shoulders in the Biden cabinet, Wally Adeyemo, future Deputy Minister of Finance who is also a former top manager of … BlackRock.
Neera Tanden, recruited as head of the Bureau of Management and Budget, a key body in guiding economic and social policies, is also fueling anger and concerns. Tanden indeed committed at the turn of the 2010 decade to cuts in social security pensions, the public old-age insurance that guarantees the United States access to a low pension, particularly to more deprived not having been able to cover themselves with a private insurance policy.
Choices “as classic as they are corrupt”
To implement long-term deficit reduction, Tanden pleaded with the Obama administration that it was not necessary “Not just asking for sacrifices from the middle class, but from all Americans”. At the time, she ran into Bernie Sanders. And relations between the senator from Vermont and the newly promoted Biden government, which had hardly calmed down in the meantime, deteriorated markedly in the last period. Tanden was indeed counted as one of the most vindictive figures in the Democratic establishment against the Sanders candidacy. His appointment confirms a release from an already ignored left.
Progressive investigative journalist, close to Sanders, David Sirota analyzes that these choices “As classic as they are corrupt” would revert to the phenomena which aggravated the suffering under the previous administration. And prevent: “They are the fuel for the emergence of another Trump, but even worse than the first. ”
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