Biden Names Temporary Agency Leaders To Run Government — January 20, 2021

Summary

A report by Vanessa Romo dated January 20, 2021 on the slate of nearly two dozen acting officials, most of them career civil servants, that the White House named to lead federal agencies temporarily while President Joe Biden waited for the Senate to confirm his Cabinet. The list names Andy Baukol for the Department of Treasury, Tami Perriello for the Small Business Administration, Norris Cochran for the Department of Health and Human Services and Monty Wilkinson for the Department of Justice, among others. The report says five Cabinet nominees, including Janet Yellen for the Treasury Department, faced Senate panels on Tuesday, and that Biden was expected to sign 17 executive actions within the first few hours of his presidency.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Full text

Biden Names Temporary Agency Leaders To Run Government : Inauguration Day: Live Updates Nearly two dozen career civil servants have been named by the Biden administration to temporarily lead the nation's federal agencies in the next phase of the transition of government.

Inauguration Day: Live Updates

As President Biden Awaits Cabinet Confirmation, White House Announces Interim Leaders

January 20, 20214:44 PM ET

Vanessa Romo

Enlarge this image

President Joe Biden signs three documents including an inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet nominations in the President's Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony, Wednesday.

Jim Lo Scalzo/AP

hide caption

toggle caption

Jim Lo Scalzo/AP

President Joe Biden signs three documents including an inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet nominations in the President's Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony, Wednesday.

Jim Lo Scalzo/AP

President Joe Biden has picked a slate of nearly two dozen acting officials to temporarily lead agencies as he waits for Congress to confirm his Cabinet.

According to a list of officials issued by the White House on Wednesday, most of the temporary leaders are career civil servants.

Elections

Biden Administration: Here's Who Has Been Named So Far

Still, the 46th president entered the White House on Inauguration Day with no Cabinet members yet confirmed by the Senate, making him the first president in recent history to take charge of the nation without key advisors in place.

Here's a full list of those who will be assisting in the next phase of the transition of government:

Central Intelligence Agency, David Cohen

Department of Defense, David Norquist

Department of Energy, David Huizenga

Department of Health and Human Services, Norris Cochran

Department of Homeland Security, David Pekoske

Department of Justice, Monty Wilkinson

Department of Labor, Al Stewart

Department of State, Dan Smith

Department of Treasury, Andy Baukol

Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Lora Shiao

General Services Administration, Katy Kale

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Steve Jurczyk

National Endowment for the Arts, Ann Eilers

National Endowment for the Humanities, Adam Wolfson

Office of Management and Budget, Rob Fairweather

Office of National Drug Control Policy, Regina LaBelle

Office of Personnel Management, Kathy McGettigan

Small Business Administration, Tami Perriello

Social Security Administration, Andrew Saul

U.S. Agency for International Development, Gloria Steele

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Dev Jagadesan

U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Rich Mills

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Maria Pagan

Five of Biden's Cabinet nominees faced Senate panels on Tuesday in the first step of the confirmation process.

Among them were Janet Yellen, selected to lead the Treasury Department; Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's choice to head the Department of Homeland Security; Antony Blinken to helm the State Department; retired Gen. Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense; and Avril Haines, to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Prior to his swearing in, Biden pledged he'd hit the ground running on a number of his top priorities, ranging from reversing former President Trump's travel ban on Muslim-majority nations to rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, and taking the reigns on plans to curb the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the nation.

Biden is expected to sign 17 executive actions within the first few hours of his presidency.

Politics

Senate Begins Biden Cabinet Confirmation Hearings As Impeachment Trial Looms

biden administration

Biden Cabinet

Inauguration 2021

File and source

File

as-president-biden-awaits-cabinet-confirmation-white-house-announces-i_9a833d17d0cb596d.html

Size

82,877 bytes

SHA-256

0745ccf36e2adb5269eff59c400e66008268dce7e176cfadcde8670be675b6c8

Our copy

as-president-biden-awaits-cabinet-confirmation-white-house-announces-i_9a833d17d0cb596d.html

Original

www.npr.org