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Joe Biden's inner circle: meet the new president's close-knit team [View all]
Joe Biden's inner circle: meet the new president's close-knit team.At the core of the administration Joe Biden is building is a trusted circle of officials, who are bound together by many years of working together in a close-knit team in the Obama administration, by a shared faith, or, in some cases, by a tie with Biden’s late son, Beau.
Tony Blinken
The nominee for secretary of state...
Jake Sullivan
Sullivan, at 43 the youngest national security adviser in 60 years...
Lloyd Austin
Defense secretary has been described as “the silent general” ...
Avril Haines
Director of national intelligence...
Kamala Harris
VP (duh
)
Ron Klain
Chief of Staff
John Kerry
Climate Envoy
Jill Biden
First Lady, 46th's wife of 43 years
(duh
)
The link has nice bios and connections about each of them:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/joe-biden-president-inner-circle-team-officials
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