Biden Chooses Longtime Adviser Ron Klain As Chief of Staff
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Source: AP News
50 mins ago. WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience in the top role in his White House. Klain will lead a White House likely to be consumed by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread unchecked across the nation, and hell face the challenge of working with a divided Congress that could include a Republican-led Senate.
Klain served as the coordinator to the Ebola response during the 2014 outbreak. In a statement Wednesday night, Biden suggested he chose Klain for the position because his longtime experience in Washington had prepared him for such challenges. His deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff as we confront this moment of crisis and bring our country together again, Biden said.
Klain served as chief of staff for Biden during Barack Obamas first term, was chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s and was a key adviser on the Biden campaign, guiding Bidens debate preparations and coronavirus response. Hes known and worked with Biden since the Democrats 1987 presidential campaign. The choice of Klain underscores the effort the incoming Biden administration will place on the coronavirus response from day one.
Klain has experience in public health as the Ebola response coordinator and played a central role in drafting and implementing the Obama administrations economic recovery plan in 2009. Im honored by the President-elects confidence and will give my all to lead a talented and diverse team in a Biden-Harris WH, Klain tweeted...
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-ap-top-news-ebola-virus-coronavirus-pandemic-ron-klain-4efa3dbd7c77fc572042e3c16e88d1d9
- Oct. 22, 2014, Ebola coordinator Ron Klain listens as President Obama speaks to the media about the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience across. That's according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke to The AP on Wed., Nov. 11, 2020 on condition of anonymity to avoid preempting an official announcement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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