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23 Nov, 7 tweets, 4 min read

Breaking News: President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be the first Latino to run Homeland Security and Avril Haines to be the first female intelligence chief. John Kerry will be named climate czar. nyti.ms/3maw56Y

After serving as secretary of state from 2013 to 2017, John Kerry made climate change his signature issue. His role as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate will be full-time and he'll sit on the National Security Council, the transition office said. nytimes.com/2020/11/23/cli…

Avril Haines, nominated to be the first woman to lead the intelligence community, has previously been the deputy director of the CIA, deputy national security adviser and counsel to the National Security Council under the Obama administration. nyti.ms/3maw56Y

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a former director general and HR director of the Foreign Service, will be nominated to be U.N. ambassador. Biden is returning the job to cabinet-level status, giving Thomas-Greenfield a seat on his National Security Council. nyti.ms/3maw56Y

Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born immigrant and a former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, was deputy DHS secretary from 2013 to 2016. If confirmed, he'd be the first Latino person to run the department managing U.S. immigration policy. nyti.ms/3maw56Y

Breaking News: President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Janet Yellen, the former chair of the Federal Reserve and a labor market expert, to be his Treasury secretary. nytimes.com/2020/11/23/bus…

Janet Yellen, who was the first female Fed chair, is likely to bring to the Treasury a long-held preference for giving government help to struggling households, and for slightly tighter financial regulation, as she navigates the economic crisis. nytimes.com/2020/11/23/bus…

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