Washington, United States.
The president – elect of United States, Joe Biden, completed nominations for his on Friday cabinet, Which will be the most diverse in the history of the country and the first with gender parity, and revealed that it was about to include in the ‘ Senator Bernie Sanders, But did not want to jeopardize control Democrat of the Senate.
“As I promised, and I have fulfilled that promise, this is a cabinet that represents what the United States is like. And it takes advantage of the full range of potential we have in our nation,” Biden told a news conference at Wilmington (Delaware).
Twelve of Biden’s 24 nominees for his cabinet are women, and less than half of all nominees are white (four are Latinos). All of them will have to be confirmed by the Senate, with a very narrow Democratic majority, to be able to take their seats in the coming weeks.
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Biden completed his list of nominees for the cabinet on Friday by announcing that he had chosen Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor, Gina Raimondo as Secretary of Commerce and Isabel Guzmán as director of the US Small Business Administration.
the president elected also revealed that he was very seriously considering appointing as Secretary of Labor in Bernie Sanders, His most important rival in last year’s Democratic primary and one of the country’s most influential progressive figures.
“I’m sure I would have done a great job, I can’t think of any more passionate and dedicated ally of the workers in this country,” Biden said.
However, after seeing the result of this Tuesday’s election in Georgia, Who granted Democrats control of the Senate by the minimum, decided that he could not risk leaving the seat for Vermont occupied by Sanders vacant, and that Republicans could perhaps conquer and take away their kingdoms. from the upper house.
“(Sanders) agreed that we couldn’t risk it,” Biden said.
The Labor Secretary he appointed to his post is Marty Walsh, the current mayor of Boston (Massachusetts) And that it has the support of the big country unions.
Biden also announced this Friday the first Latin woman in his cabinet, Isabel Guzmán, to join the other three Hispanics already nominated by the president-elect: Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of national security, Xavier Becerra as secretary of health and Miguel Cardona as secretary of education.
Guzmán “grew up in California, Working alongside his father in the small veterinary business he built, ”and is now director of the small business advocate’s office in this western state, Biden explained.
As for Gina Raimondo, chosen by Biden to lead the Department of Commerce, she is the current governor of the state of Rhode Island, and was one of the candidates Biden considered as vice president.