Washington, United States.
The elected president of U.S, Joe Biden, completed the nominations for his cabinet, which will be the most diverse in the country’s history and the first with gender equality, and revealed that he was about to senador Bernie Sanders, but did not want risk management Senate Democrat.
“As I promised, and I have kept that promise, this is a cabinet that represents what the United States is like. And it is tapping into the full range of potential that we have in our country,” Biden said at a press conference. Wilmington (Delaware).
Twelve of Biden’s 24 nominees for his cabinet are women, and less than half of all nominees are white (four are Latino). They will all have to be confirmed by the Senate, with a very narrow democratic majority, to fill their positions in the coming weeks.
Also read: Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump’s account
Biden completed his list of cabinet nominees on Friday by announcing that he had elected Marty Walsh as Minister of Labor, Gina Raimondo as Minister of Trade and Isabel Guzmán as Director of the US Small Business Administration.
He President select He also revealed that he was very seriously considering a nomination as Minister of Labor Bernie Sanders, his main rival in last year’s Democratic Primary and one of the most influential progressive figures in the country.
“I’m sure he would have done a great job – I can’t think of a more passionate and dedicated ally in this country,” said Biden.
However, after seeing the results of Tuesday’s election in Georgia, who gave the Democrats control of the Senate for the bare minimum, decided that he couldn’t risk leaving Sanders’s seat for Vermont, and that maybe the Republicans could take it and take the reins of the Senate from them. to take over.
“(Sanders) agreed we couldn’t risk that,” Biden said.
The Secretary of Labor he has appointed in his place is Marty Walsh, the current Mayor of Boston (Massachusetts) and that it has the backing of the country’s major unions.
Biden also announced this Friday the first Latina woman in his cabinet, Isabel Guzmán, who will 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, who worked with her father on the small veterinary businesses he built, ”and is now director of the small business law firm in that western state, Biden explained.
As for Gina Raimondo, the one chosen by Biden to head the Department of Commerce, she is the current Governor of the State of Rhode Island, and she was one of the candidates Biden considered as vice president.