Biden names Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member
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Biden names Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member
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WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as one of the three new members of the National Economic Council that coordinates domestic and international economic policymaking process for the administration. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris named three additional NEC members: Joelle Gamble, Special Assistant to the US President for Economic Policy; David Kamin, Deputy Director NEC along with Ramamurti as Deputy Director of NEC for Financial Reform and Consumer Protection.
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President-elect Joe Biden on Monday added to his economic team with three new appointments.
Biden named David Kamin, a former Obama administration official, as deputy director of the National Economic Council. Bharat Ramamurti, a longtime aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will serve as deputy NEC director for financial reform and consumer protection. Warren proposed and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that began operating in 2011 and has since faced undermining efforts from the Trump administration.
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Former Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., head of the Biden-Harris transition and for whom a key piece of transition law is named, did his most extensive interview since the election on the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service’s transition podcast, which was published on Friday. “I thought we [saw] the most difficult transition because of the Great Recession, the financial crisis, in 2008, but it s nothing like this,” he said. “No other transition has ever taken place with this set of challenges: a pandemic, a recession, a racial justice crisis, an unpredictable president and political polarization.” He also outlined the “four rules” of the Biden-Harris transition team, which are: until Election Day, the campaign is the most important thing; what happens in the transition,
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Biden names additional members to National Economic Council U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden on Monday named additional people to join the National Economic Council, his transition team said in a statement.
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REUTERS: U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden on Monday named additional members of the National Economic Council, rounding out his economic policymaking team with people his transition office said would help lift Americans out of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19.