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Senate confirms Biden's intel chief, giving him first Cabinet official

By Jordain Carney - 01/20/21 07:22 PM EST

Senators confirmed Avril Haines to be President Biden s director of national intelligence (DNI) on Wednesday, giving him his first Senate-confirmed Cabinet pick.
Senators voted 84-10 to confirm Haines, who appears to be the only Cabinet official Biden will get confirmed on the first day of his administration.
It s a historically small number of Cabinet picks to get through the Senate on the first day of a new administration and comes after Republicans were furious in 2017 when Democrats allowed only two Cabinet picks to be confirmed on former President Trump
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By comparison, former President Obama got six Cabinet picks confirmed on his first day, former President George W. Bush got seven on his first day and former President Clinton got three. Former President Carter got eight, while former President Nixon got 11. ....

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Progressives push for key national security positions under Biden

Dozens of progressive organizations will deliver a book to President-elect Joe Biden
The book contains 100 profiles of left-leaning foreign policy experts and potential positions they could fill.
The effort was led by Yasmine Taeb, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and Alex McCoy, the political director at Common Defense.
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Of the 100 people included in the Progressive Foreign Policy Talent Pipeline, about two-thirds are women or people of color, and the overriding qualifier was that none of the candidates have corporate ties or backgrounds.
The candidates generally advocate for foreign policy restraint and support cutting the budget at the Pentagon and pulling the U.S. out of foreign entanglements. ....

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