According to a number of US media statistics, the ownership of electoral votes in all states in the United States has been determined, with Democratic presidential candidate Biden receiving 306 electoral votes and Republican presidential candidate and incumbent President Trump receiving 232 electoral votes.
Although Trump is still busy with litigation, one of the current focuses of the US media is the selection of Biden's new team. Biden has reportedly said he hopes to announce some cabinet officials by next Tuesday.
"The cabinet has to look like this country and offer different perspectives on issues"
Whenever a new president of the United States takes office, he will always see news such as the appointment of secretaries of state and secretaries of the treasury, which is the new president forming a cabinet.
The Cabinet is the federal executive branch of the United States, subordinate to the President of the United States, although there is no law that explicitly stipulates its existence, but since the first President George Washington, successive presidents have established cabinets to assist in executive work, and the president's cabinet has become a habitual existence.
Members of the U.S. President's Cabinet are nominated by the President and elected with the consent of the Senate. Currently, there are 15 ministers, including the Vice President and the Department of State (i.e., the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Ministry of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Homeland Security.
What will be the characteristics of Biden's cabinet team? There may be traces of this. On November 10, local time, the Biden team announced the list of hundreds of members of the institutional review team on the "transition website", which will evaluate the operation of federal agencies and help Biden cope with the challenges after taking office. Biden said it would be the most diverse institutional review panel in U.S. history, with more than half being women and 40 percent of people of color, people with disabilities and other minorities.
Such characteristics may also be reflected in the new cabinet that Biden began to form. According to the New York Times, Biden said that diverse team composition was "crucial" to him, both in public and in private conversations. This spring, Biden mentioned his ideal cabinet in a speech, "It's especially important for a cabinet to look like this country because everyone gives you a different perspective on the issue."
Biden said he wanted to end "America's brutal demonization era" and that in order to bridge the divide between the two parties, he could cross parties and nominate Republicans for cabinet posts or other key positions in the administration, which could bring the United States back to a tradition of bipartisan co-governance, according to Capitol Hill.
These positions will most likely be filled by women
Shangguan News combed and found that according to a number of media forecasts, there may be many important positions in biden's cabinet for women.
Starting with Vice President Kamala Harris, 56, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris is considered to be the representative of the children of American immigrant families, and she will become the first female vice president in U.S. history, the first African-American and Indian-American vice president.
Currently, more than a quarter of U.S. adults are immigrants or children of immigrants, and some media outlets say Harris's election offers a possibility to break down racial and gender barriers in American politics.
Kamala Harris
According to political news website Politico, several U.S. officials said Biden would select someone with experience at the State Department as secretary of state. Susan Rice will be his top priority, as the 55-year-old served as Obama's diplomatic adviser during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after being nominated and appointed to office by Obama as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and later as president's national security adviser.
Susan Rice
For the defense secretary, the Guardian predicted that Michelle Flono, who had previously served as deputy secretary of defense, was Biden's top consideration. Flono, 59, who served as a senior defense adviser to the Clinton administration and the Obama administration, is considered a moderate. And if Flono's nomination is successfully confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will become the first female secretary of defense in U.S. history.
The analysis believes that if Flono can successfully take office, it will end the "turmoil" of the Trump administration in the past four years in the position of defense secretary. In the past four years, the United States has ushered in four defense ministers or acting defense ministers. On November 9, Trump announced on Twitter that he had fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Michelle Florno
In addition to the above three positions, according to Shangguan News, there are also strong contenders for the positions of Minister of Finance, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing and Urban Development, and Minister of Education, all of whom are women.
Shangguan News has been combed before
In contrast, although the cabinet formed by Trump when he first took office has a female and minority face, most of the media in the United States believe that diversity is insufficient, even stuck at the level of the 1990s. For example, the most high-profile positions of secretary of state, secretary of defense, attorney general, and secretary of the Treasury are all held by white men, the first time since the Bush administration that all four positions have been occupied by white men.
There are still obstacles to forming an "ideal cabinet."
While the president has the right to nominate the Cabinet, it also requires the consent of the Senate. According to the Associated Press, if a Senate majority is secured, democrats, who already control the House, will have a firm grip on Washington. That would give Biden a degree of freedom in nominating people, including his cabinet.
At present, neither party seems to be able to lock in a Senate majority. The results of the post-Election count on November 3 showed that both Republicans and Democrats would have 48 seats in the next Senate. Georgia has two seats to be finalised on January 5 next year. The vote counts in North Carolina and Alaska are still ongoing, and it is too early to judge.
The analysis believes that the political struggle in Georgia is of great significance. The state's party split is clear, with Democrats ahead of Republicans due to a surge in new voters. But no Democrat has been elected to the state's Senate in nearly 20 years. A strategist said the battle for 2 Senate seats in the state could cost up to $500 million.
The Republican conundrum is that the ruling vice president has the right to vote in the Senate to break the draw. That vote will belong to Harris next year. That means Democrats can control the Senate with 50 seats, while Republicans need to win 51 seats to retain power. That put Georgia at the center of the competition.
Yang Rong is integrated from CCTV Finance, Reference News, First Finance, The Paper, Governor of Chang'an Avenue, Foreign Affairs, and China News Network
Column Editor-in-Chief: Liu Lu Text Editor: Yang Rong Title Image Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: Shangguan He