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    Biden’s Cabinet: Expertise, diversity and an Obama class reunion

    WASHINGTON — Over the course of the presidential campaign, voters got to see two Joe Bidens: the one who promised to restore stability and competence to government, and another who promised an FDR-style transformation to address social and economic inequities that long predated Donald Trump and the pandemic. As President-elect Biden has assembled his Cabinet choices in the last month, he has ...
    by Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2020 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON — Over the course of the presidential campaign, voters got to see two Joe Bidens: the one who promised to restore stability and competence to government, and another who promised an FDR-style transformation to address social and economic inequities that long predated Donald Trump and the pandemic.

    As President-elect Biden has assembled his Cabinet choices in the last month, he has offered up much more restoration than transformation.

    Of the first 18 Cabinet-level appointments he has made, two-thirds are alumni of the Obama-Biden administration, or closely tied to one of the men. Two appointees would be doing the same job they had under Obama, as Agriculture secretary and surgeon general. A third of the Cabinet picks are old enough to qualify for Medicare.

    Biden vowed to name a diverse Cabinet

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