Before his official entrance to the White House on Wednesday, President Joe Biden completed the preparation of his full final cabinet.
According to Fox News, President Biden's new cabinet includes many names from former President Barack Obama's administration. The network highlighted that for the first time, a woman of color, Kamala Harris, has been chosen as Vice President, noting that she was born in Oakland, California, to parents from Jamaica and India.
The network reported that Antony Blinken was chosen for the position of Secretary of State, pointing out that Blinken served as Deputy Secretary of State during Obama's presidency. Additionally, Janet Yellen was selected for the Department of Treasury; she previously worked as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and the Chair of the Federal Reserve, and if confirmed, she would be the first woman to serve as Secretary of Treasury.
The network continued by listing the nominees for the various departments as follows:
- **Department of Defense** – Lloyd Austin
Austin is a retired general with over 40 years of military service and will be the first Black Secretary of Defense.
- **Attorney General** – Merrick Garland
Garland is currently a federal judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was nominated to the Supreme Court by Obama, but his nomination was never taken up by the Senate, eventually leading to President Trump appointing Justice Neil Gorsuch to the seat.
- **Department of the Interior** – Deb Haaland
Haaland is currently a Democratic Congresswoman from New Mexico. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American woman to serve as Secretary.
- **Department of Agriculture** – Tom Vilsack
Vilsack held this position during the Obama administration from 2009-2017.
- **Department of Commerce** – Gina Raimondo
Raimondo is currently the Governor of Rhode Island.
- **Department of Labor** – Marty Walsh
Walsh is the current Mayor of Boston.
- **Department of Health and Human Services** – Xavier Becerra
Becerra is the current Attorney General of California.
- **Department of Housing and Urban Development** – Marcia Fudge
Fudge is currently a Democratic Representative from Ohio.
- **Department of Transportation** – Pete Buttigieg
Buttigieg is a former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who ran for the presidency in 2020.
- **Department of Energy** – Jennifer Granholm
Granholm is a former Governor of Michigan.
- **Department of Education** – Miguel Cardona
Cardona is currently the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut.
- **Department of Veterans Affairs** – Denis McDonough
McDonough was Chief of Staff for Obama during his second term and spent most of Obama's first term as Deputy National Security Advisor.
- **Department of Homeland Security** – Alejandro Mayorkas
Mayorkas served as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services during Obama’s first term and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in his second term.
- **Director of the Central Intelligence Agency** – William Burns
Burns was a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Jordan, and served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
- **Director of the Environmental Protection Agency** – Michael Regan
Regan has previously worked at the EPA and currently serves as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality in North Carolina.
- **Director of National Intelligence** – Avril Haines
Haines was Deputy National Security Advisor and Principal Deputy Counsel to the President during Obama's presidency.
- **U.S. Trade Representative** – Katherine Tai
Tai is the chief trade lawyer for Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
- **White House Chief of Staff** – Ronald Klain
Klain was Biden's Chief of Staff when he became Vice President in 2009. He also served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore and Attorney General Janet Reno during the Clinton administration.
- **U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations** – Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Thomas-Greenfield was the Ambassador to Liberia during Obama's first term. During his second term, she was Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. She has also served in diplomatic roles in Switzerland, Pakistan, Kenya, Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica.
- **U.S. Presidential Special Envoy for Climate** – John Kerry
Kerry was Secretary of State during Obama’s second term and served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013.
