Posted on 11/23/2020 12:33:29 PM PST by conservative98
Alejandro Mayorkas will be the first Latino to run the Homeland Security Department and Avril Haines will be the first woman to serve as Director of National Intelligence, while former Secretary of State John Kerry has been tapped as climate czar and a member of the National Security Council, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team announced Monday.
Mayorkas and Haines mark the first cabinet announcements from the incoming commander-in-chief, and will require Senate approval in order to serve in the posts.
Mayorkas served as deputy Homeland Security secretary from 2013 to 2016. He would also be the first immigrant to serve in the role. During his tenure under the Obama-era DHS, he led the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Haines, meanwhile, has worked under Biden for over a decade. She served under President Barack Obama as a principal deputy national security adviser from 2015 to 2017.
She also worked under Biden during his time as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman from 2007 to 2008.
If confirmed, she would become the highest-ranking woman to serve in the intelligence community, replacing CIA Director Gina Haspel as the most senior female.
Biden has also tapped former Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, as his climate czar.
Kerry’s official title will be special presidential envoy for climate, and he will sit on the National Security Council as part of his duties. The move will mark the first time that the NSC has included an official dedicated exclusively to climate change.
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“These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative. Their accomplishments in diplomacy are unmatched, but they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet the profound challenges of this new moment with old thinking and unchanged habits — or without diversity of background and perspective. It’s why I’ve selected them,” he continued.

"We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Yeah well. I’ll never see them. The day Biden takes office is the day I throw my television in the river.
If Joe won fair and square I wouldn’t be bothered (I wouldn’t like it)... but what bothers me is that this election was stolen - he cheated. And not one republican politician is helping our President. Disgusted.
The dimwit is setting himself up with a real conga line of freaks, and all of them just as corrupt, if not more so than he is!!
Diversity of background and perspective? They are all long time political hacks. And they are all liberal. So where exactly is the diveristy?
The cadaver cabinet
It will be hard to swallow every minute.
We will know we live in a banana republic now, at least when it comes to voting
Not my President. I wonder who gave Biden this list of underqualified incompetents.
Bringing back in all the Deep State stooges to run things and take us back to where we were before Trump. War will be coming and soon if Biden takes over, you can bet on it.
Garbage, we’ll do nothing of the sort.
All for naught. Praying!
Effing criminals! This is such crap. No freakin way he won! No effing way!
President Trump only needs the recounts and court cases to swing his way in a few states and there will be no Biden cabinet.
Still waiting for the historic first tr@nny Surgeon General.
Bye-bye border wall. So WE the American people paid for it, we need to defend it, because they are going to take it down and there will be celebration all over this country, in our face.
John Kerry is an odd choice for “climate czar.” At least he was not named Secretary of Defense.
A f’n climate czar. Lord deliver us from this nightmare
What “president elect” ? There is NONE !
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