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Welcome to POLITICO’s 2021 Transition Playbook,
your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration
When
JOE BIDEN nominated
JAIME HARRISON to head the Democratic National Committee, the president’s team also informed Harrison they had already hired his top staffers, according to a Democratic official familiar with the conversations.
Entry points for Nigeria’s diplomacy in Biden’s era
Joe Biden
Wed Jan 27 2021
The inauguration of Mr. Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America on 20th January, 2021 and the policy changes so far enacted by the new president represent a forceful repudiation of President Donald Trump and his belligerent, isolationist ‘America first’ policy. In international affairs, Trump antagonised friends and allies and gravely undermined the pivotal transatlantic alliance that has been the foundation of US security and foreign policy since the end of World War 11.
In the Trump era, Africa fared even worse. Some say that in the four long years of his presidency, Africa never featured on his policy radar, except in derogatory stereotyping. Early in his presidency, Trump roundly rejected the idea of state-building, a euphemism for long standing US policy of providing development assistance to Third World countries. In his first budget to Congress in 2017, Trump propo
Top Story
January 25, 2021
LAHORE: Following the swearing-in of Kamala Harris as the US Vice President, numerous media houses in India are euphoric over the appointment of at least 20 other Indian-Americans, outnumbering the Americans of Pak origin, to key positions in President Joe Biden s administration.
However, Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense, General (retired) Lloyd Austin, have so far aired positive, yet carefully-worded, statements about Pakistan, India and the ever-worsening situation in Held Kashmir.
These statements, before and after Biden s election to Oval Office, should thus make many neutral political pundits believe a faint wind of optimism has perhaps started blowing for the good, besides giving bleeding Kashmiris a glimmer of hope that they might now be heard better by more receptive and sympathetic ears in Washington DC. Here follows an archival research of how the key Biden administration pillars
By Sabir Shah
LAHORE: Following the swearing-in of Kamala Harris as the US Vice President, numerous media houses in India are euphoric over the appointment of at least 20 other Indian-Americans, outnumbering the Americans of Pak origin, to key positions in President Joe Biden s administration.
However, Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense, General (retired) Lloyd Austin, have so far aired positive, yet carefully-worded, statements about Pakistan, India and the ever-worsening situation in Held Kashmir.
These statements, before and after Biden s election to Oval Office, should thus make many neutral political pundits believe a faint wind of optimism has perhaps started blowing for the good, besides giving bleeding Kashmiris a glimmer of hope that they might now be heard better by more receptive and sympathetic ears in Washington DC.
somewhat ambiguous. but does don mcgahn if this ruling is upheld, have to show up and answer at least some questions? absolutely. and the judge goes on to say it is not just a lawyer. not just a domestic policy adviser. not just a foreign policy adviser. any white house employee is covered by this ruling. if you are john bolton watching this, what do you think he s thinking? he has to be doing some serious thinking about it. he is directly involved. he could easily say based on this ruling, i am now going to go testify. i m no longer a white house employee. i think i have things to say that are unrelated to the executive privilege. he could claim, he is an attorney. he knows there s a crime-fraud exception to any of his conversations. if he has knowledge of criminal activity, he can go in and