BREAKING: Joe Biden Reveals National Security And Foreign Policy Team

US president elect, Joe Biden’s transition team has announced major nominations and appointments for his national security and foreign policy team.

OnyxNews Nigeria understands that the US president-elect’s team made the announcements in a new press release on Monday, 23 November 2020.

Full List of Joe Biden’s national security and foreign policy team

The team includes:
Antony Blinken, a former deputy secretary of state, will be nominated to serve as secretary of state, as earlier reported.

Alejandro Mayorkas, a former deputy secretary of the the department of homeland security, will be nominated to serve as DHS secretary. If confirmed, Mayorkas will be the first Latino and immigrant to serve as DHS secretary.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a former US ambassador, will be nominated as ambassador to the UN.

John Kerry, the former secretary of state, will serve as a special presidential envoy for climate and will sit on the national security council.

Avril Haines, a former deputy CIA director, will be nominated to serve as the director of national intelligence. If confirmed, she will be the first woman to lead the US intelligence community.

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Jake Sullivan, a longtime Biden adviser, will serve as national security adviser.

Meanwhile, the president-elect has also added two more appointments of senior staff, as he continues to build out his White House team.

The Biden transition team announced that Reema Dodin and Shuwanza Goff would serve as deputy directors of the White House office of legislative affairs.

Both Dodin and Goff come from Capitol Hill. Dodin currently serves as deputy chief of staff and floor director to Senate Democratic whip Dick Dubrin, and Goff was formerly the floor director for House majority leader Steny Hoyer, making her the first Black woman to hold the role.

According to a Politico reporter, Biden has done an impressive job building out a strong legislative affairs team, as the president-elect faces the possibility of a Republican-controlled Senate.

Credit: The Guardian