The former VP is preparing to take power amid twin health and economic crises.
While President Donald Trump eagerly returns to the campaign trail, Joe Biden is building out a team with an eye toward governing.
"The next president will confront an ongoing global health pandemic and inherit an economy in its worst shape since the Great Depression. No one will have taken office facing such daunting obstacles since Franklin Delano Roosevelt," Kaufman said in a statement."Joe Biden is prepared to meet these urgent challenges on the day he is sworn in as president, and begin the hard work of addressing the public health crisis and rebuilding an economy that puts working families first.
For the Biden team, Yohannes Abraham has signed on to manage day-to-day operations, with Avril Haines coming on to help policy and agency review teams and herself lead the national security and foreign policy team. These initial steps by Biden's team are consistent with other recent transition periods. Denis McDonough, who led those efforts as Obama's chief of staff in 2016, said that by this point four years ago he had also held initial meetings with representatives from both the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns.
Joining Abraham and Haines as part of the early leadership team will be Gautam Raghavan, currently chief of staff to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus; Angela Ramirez, chief of staff to Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., a member of House leadership; Evan Ryan, a longtime Biden adviser and former assistant secretary of State; and Julie Siegel, top adviser in Elizabeth Warren's Senate office who also worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Kaufman said the transition would prioritize several"core values: diversity of ideology and background; talent to address society's most complex challenges; integrity and the highest ethical standards to serve the American people and not special interests; and transparency to enable trust and visibility at every stage."
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