US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on November 29 announced an all-women team of the White House staff to serve in senior communication roles. Biden’s office claims that this will be the first time the communications positions will be filled entirely by women.
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The move to appoint an all-women senior media team shows Biden’s continued commitment to building an administration that “looks like America”.
Four of the seven appointments are women of colour. Harris has called the team “barrier shattering”.
He has chosen former Barack Obama administration’s State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary.
US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Indian-origin Neera Tanden as his budget chief. Tanden is the president and CEO of the left-leaning think tank Centre for American Progress (CAP), and the CEO of the American Progress Action Fund.
