Former Presidential Candidate and South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be nominated by President-Elect Joe Biden to serve as the next Secretary of Transportation.
If confirmed, Mayor Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person to serve in an American Presidential Administration.
His portfolio would include overseeing the modernization of the nations transportation infrastructure
President-Elect Biden wrote on the nomination:
“Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a patriot and a problem-solver who speaks to the best of who we are as a nation. I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because this position stands at the nexus of so many of the interlocking challenges and opportunities ahead of us. Jobs, infrastructure, equity, and climate all come together at the DOT, the site of some of our most ambitious plans to build back better. I trust Mayor Pete to lead this work with focus, decency, and a bold vision — he will bring people together to get big things done.”
Vice President-Elect Harris commented:
“One of the most important parts of building America back better is ushering in a safe, modern, and sustainable transportation system that helps us grow our economy, tackle our climate crisis, and connect all Americans to jobs and opportunity. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is an outstanding choice to help spearhead this work. An innovative problem solver and trailblazing public servant, Mayor Pete is deeply committed to bringing people together and upgrading our transportation system in a way that serves Americans of all backgrounds and communities of every size — urban and rural — across our country.”
It has been also reported that President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris have selected former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as their nominee for Secretary of Energy and former Environmental Protection Agency Director Gina McCarthy as a new White House Czar on Domestic Climate Policy. John Kerry has already been selected to oversee the international aspects of climate policy.
If confirmed, Governor Granholm would apparently focus some of her time on ushering in the growth of the production of electric cars.
Director McCarthy's new position does not require Senate confirmation.
With these latest selections, the makeup of the Biden/Harris Administration is:
White Women: 16
Black Women: 10
Latino Women: 3
Asian Women: 5
Native American Women: 0
White Men: 13
Black Men: 3
Latino Men: 4
Asian Men: 1
Native American Men: 0
The President-Elect and Vice President-Elect still need to announce their picks for the Secretary of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency. Those nominees will work with the ones selected today in fashioning sustainable infrastructure and environmental policies.
Biden/Harris team members have said that all cabinet selections should be made before Christmas.
The remaining cabinet-level positions to be announced are:
- Attorney General.
- Central Intelligence Agency Director.
- Secretary of Education.
- Secretary of the Interior.
- Environmental Protection Agency.
- Secretary of Labor.
- Secretary of Commerce.
- Head of N.A.S.A.
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