Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies.

 

Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies.



President-elect Joe Biden has worked with the previous aide he wants to be secretary of state since their time at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within the 1990s. His nominee for agriculture secretary endorsed his first presidential bid quite 30 years ago. And he knows his choice for Pentagon chief from the retired general’s time in Iraq, where Biden’s son Beau, a military lawyer, also served on the general’s staff.

For all the talk that Biden is abiding by a sophisticated formula of ethnicity, gender, and knowledge as he builds his administration and he is perhaps the foremost important criteria for landing a cupboard post or a top White House job appear to be having a long-standing relationship with the president-elect himself.

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