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When George Washington, the first president of the EE.UU., created his first cabinet in 1791, all his members were white and white.
With more than 200 years left, Joe Biden’s powerhouse is a radical change: the new mandate has proposed to form part of its governing body that is considered the most diverse team in the nation’s history.
Through his tenure of this position, Biden firm, among its first documents, is the official nomination of the members of his team, which are sometimes seen in audiences in the Senate, which hopes to confirm all of his candidates.
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Biden converts these high schools into the 46th President of the EE.UU.
For the vote of a cabinet that has begun months before the elections, with the proper selection as its formula for the Vice Presidency: Kamala Harris, the congresswoman of California who converts these schools only in the first female to occupy the cargo sino also in the first with African and Asian races in reading to puesto.
And when it comes to its election, opt for another female to one of the most solid governors of the federal government: Janet Yellen, who made the first female president of the Federal Reserve, was nominated as the first secretariat of the Treasury.
The rest of the cabinet
Confirmed by the Senate, the cabinet also deals with the mayor of racial diversity in the history of the United States.
And it is only 50% of the nominees for the secretariats (as known in EE.UU. to the ministries) as high level candidates within them his coloring persons.
“This cabinet will be the most representative of the people in the city who will take another place in history”, said Biden to the periodicals in December.
Various Latinos occupy places in various secretaries.
Front to National Security is Alejandro Mayorkas, of Cuban origin; Xavier Becerra will be at the front of the Secretariat of Health, while Miguel Cardona, a former Puerto Rican, will be in charge of the Education Office.
Pero Yellen is not the only woman to occupy a relevance post: Biden has nominated others four of the 15 principals puestos del gabinete, supervised by a post the established records by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
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United States will act as Secretary of the Interior to a Native American woman: Congresswoman Deb Haaland.
Another woman, Avril Haines, will also be the first director of the National Intelligence Agency.
Además, Biden has been nominated for Women five of the 15 principals puestos del gabinete, supervised by a post the established records by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
In this way, Marcia L. Fudge will lead Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda; The ex-governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, will be at the front of the Department of Energy, and the governor of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, will act as secretary of commerce.
Since 1933, solo 11 presidents, he has had a mujeres para puestos and nivel de gabinete. No cabinet has claimed the balance of gender or gender.
For the past 30 years, the tendency has been to have a female mayoral representative, except for the Donald Trump governing body, which is only integrated into three women.
Biden’s governor has also been accused of being a prime minister in the history of a gay man, South Bend’s spokesman Peter Buttigieg, who will be Transpote’s secretary
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Yellen will be the first woman to be in front of the Treasury Secretariat.
While a transgender person, Rachel Levine, joins the federal governing body as Salud’s assistant secretary.
The questions
Since the elections took place, Biden has been under heavy pressure to comply with its promises of a cabinet that actually reflects on the country.
Without embarrassment, the mandate also received critical numbers.
When Biden elected General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon, the first black man to do so, some Democrats showed unconstitutional by not electing a woman.
The president was also questioned about electing white men to lead state diplomacy and agricultural agencies (Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack, respectively), when progressive groups have agreed to nominate black women for it.
In general, Biden has been questioned by its options, which its critics, as well as within the Democratic Party, as well as assured securities, moderates, concoctions or advanced ed.
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