{"id":62560,"date":"2020-09-08T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-facing-pushback-from-progressives-over-cabinet-picks\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:42:00","slug":"biden-facing-pushback-from-progressives-over-cabinet-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-facing-pushback-from-progressives-over-cabinet-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden facing pushback from progressives over cabinet picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden facing pushback from progressives over cabinet picks<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 8, 2020 |<\/span> 3:42pm <\/p>\n

\n Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is facing warring factions of the Democratic party as he attempts to build up a potential cabinet.<\/p>\n

Since locking up the Democratic nomination in March, the former vice president has been hounded by calls from progressives to pledge that he will include no current or former Wall Street executives in his cabinet.<\/p>\n

Black and Latino lobbyists and other party power brokers, however, have issued public warnings that such a move would exclude minorities from the financial world.<\/p>\n

The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful has said repeatedly that he wants his presidential cabinet to \u201clook like the country\u201d and thus, be proudly diverse across his administration.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, however, he has not gone into specifics of who he would tap.<\/p>\n

According to Politico, multiple Black business leaders backed by moderates are being floated for possible cabinet positions, including TIAA CEO and onetime Federal Reserve vice chair Roger Ferguson as well as John Rogers and Mellody Hobson, co-CEOs of Ariel Investments.<\/p>\n

All three would not meet progressive demands for who they want to see in a Biden cabinet, with all having such deep financial and corporate backgrounds.<\/p>\n

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For Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), a senior House Financial Services Committee lawmaker and Congressional Black Caucus member, excluding those with Wall Street experience isn\u2019t the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to fix all of the problems that were created over the last four years. We\u2019re going to need every hand on deck,\u201d Meeks, a moderate who originally endorsed Michael Bloomberg before switching to Biden in March, told Politico.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad Hillary Clinton won back in \u201916, there were several names of African Americans that we wanted to put up for secretary of Treasury, for deputy secretary of Treasury, for the Fed. Many of those individuals \u2014 not all but many of them \u2014 having utilized this rule would have been automatically eliminated,\u201d the New York Democrat said.<\/p>\n

Michael Williams, founder of the Williams Group, one of the few Black-owned lobbying firms in Washington DC, also slammed progressives\u2019 efforts to keep Wall Street executives and corporate lobbyists out of the conversation.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to The Hill in late August, Williams specifically slammed a letter sent to Biden in April by eight progressive groups making their demands in order to secure their support.<\/p>\n

The list included a vow not to app<\/a>oint any \u201ccurrent or former Wall Street executives or corporate lobbyists, or people affiliated with the fossil fuel, health insurance or private prison corporations\u201d to his transition team or cabinet.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the wokeness of these people, I find it odd they are so comfortable lumping a large group of people together. They have an agenda that is limiting and it has always been limiting,\u201d Williams, who served as special assistant for legislative affairs to former President Clinton, told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Progressives, meanwhile, appear to stand by their demands for the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen the effects of corporate control over the American government for our entire lives; it has blocked universal access to health care, real action on the climate crisis and started endless wars that waste taxpayer dollars we need to invest in schools and jobs,\u201d Emily Mayer, political director of IfNotNow, one of the groups trying to discourage Biden from appointing executives and lobbyists, told Politico.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reject the false choice between having the people leading our country represent the diversity of our nation and removing corporate control from our politics.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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