The nominations signal an effort by the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
The announcement is for seven senior State Department positions and nine ambassador posts in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A majority of the nominees are career Foreign Service Officers with extensive experience in their designated regions.
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The nominees also feature a significant number of women and people of color, also part of the Biden administration’s push to increase diversity among senior staff and diplomats.
This includes Karen Erika Donfried, the president of the German Marshall Fund, a premier transatlantic policy think tank, to be assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Donfried also served as president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council during the Obama administration.
Biden announces nine career diplomats as US ambassador nominees
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate nine diplomats for ambassadorships on Thursday, marking his first selection of overseas envoys since taking office.
He also named his picks for senior State Department official roles based at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC.
His selection of a slate of predominantly career officials for the top posts may send a signal that about his move away from the Trump administration’s reliance on political appointees after the Biden team pledged to invest in career diplomats.
In a press release, the White House said Biden plans to nominate Larry André as ambassador to Somalia, Elizabeth Moore Aubin for Algeria, Steven Bondy for Bahrain, Maria Brewer for Lesotho, Marc Knapper for Vietnam, Christopher Lamora for Cameroon, Tulinabo Mushingi for Angola and Sao Tome & Principe, Michael Raynor for Senegal and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, and Eugene Young for the
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Biden Reverses $27.4 Billion in Spending Cuts Proposed by Trump
President Joe Biden says he’s withdrawing a package of spending cuts that were proposed by former President Donald Trump prior to leaving office.
Biden informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Jan. 31 that he’s withdrawing the 73 proposed rescissions previously delivered to Congress that total $27.4 billion.
Trump announced his spending cut package on Jan. 14, less than a week before he was scheduled to leave office.
He had previously signaled that he would propose “rescissions” to a $2.3 trillion government funding bill to reduce spending in particular areas his administration had deemed “wasteful.”