Biden’s play-it-safe, history-making Cabinet

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What Joe Biden’s nominees and appointments can tell us about the incoming president’s administration. And, the former head of the CDC on what it will take to get coronavirus vaccines to the masses.

National political reporter Annie Linskey on President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks — including economist Janet Yellen as the first female treasury secretary and an all-female communications team.

Moderna is moving closer to getting the green light for its coronavirus vaccine. But as former CDC director Tom Frieden says, “It’s not vaccines that save lives — it’s vaccination programs.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:15.9	I'm Martín Powers.
0:19.9	It's Monday, November 30th.
0:23.5	Today, what Biden's cabinet choices can tell us about the Biden presidency and the
0:30.1	next steps for administering vaccines.
0:37.4	Good afternoon, everyone.
0:39.4	Today, I'm pleased to announce nominations and staff for critical foreign policy
0:45.7	and national security positions in Biden's administration.
0:50.8	This week, the Trump appointee at the head of the General Services Administration finally
0:56.1	authorized the transition to the Biden presidency.
0:59.9	Since then, President-elect Joe Biden has made a steady stream of announcements about
1:04.3	his choices from members of his cabinet, his staff, and his administration.
1:08.4	It's a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure.
1:14.0	It's a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world,
1:20.7	not retreat from it.
1:22.7	You're seeing with Biden two of his preferences play out.
1:26.8	That's Annie Linsky, a political reporter for the Post.
1:30.5	One is he has rolled out senior staff members and cabinet picks who he knows very well and
1:36.4	is extremely comfortable with.
1:39.3	Many of those people are white men.
1:42.1	They include Ron Cling, his White House Chief of Staff who has been with him since Biden
1:47.1	was in the Senate, and Tony Blinken, who is going to be Biden Secretary of State pick
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