Biden Transition Team Continues Push to Fill Positions

WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden Transistion team continues to fill positions for the next administration and the latest nominee is Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to become the next Secretary of the Interior.

Halland was selected for the post after Biden Transition Team member and current New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham passed on the position.

Grisham, according to published reports, had been offered the Cabinet-level post but turned it down in hopes of being named Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Instead, Biden named former Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA) to head HHS, which leaves the former member of Congress with no clear path back to Washington, DC.

Her name had appeared as a possible nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but the Washington Post says that job will go to Michael Regan, the head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality.

The drama comes after early announcements by the President-Elect for former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (who served just under 8 years under President Obama) to return to USDA, for Katherine Tai to become Ambassador of Trade at USTR, and Janet Yellen (former Federal Reserve Chair) to head up the Treasury Department.
(SOURCE: All Ag News)