The Biden transition team announced the president-elect s choice of Raimondo for this key economic position Thursday night. The agency has a critical role in everything from technology policy to climate change to promoting American industry to the census.
Should Raimondo win U.S. Senate confirmation sometime after the new president s Jan. 20 inauguration her resignation would promote Lt. Gov. Dan McKee to governor for the two remaining years of her second term in the state s highest office.
The last time a Rhode Island governor quit was in December 1950, when John O. Pastore resigned to become a member of the U.S. Senate, and the lieutenant governor took over for the final few weeks until newly elected Dennis Roberts took office.