Jennifer Epstein

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(To be, I guess is more correct, but also to lead the office.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden chooses Katherine Tai to lead USTR, people familiar tell me and @jendeben. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JanetLorin: Look out, for-profit colleges, the Biden administration is coming https://t.co/dXydTs2nOl via @BW — PolitiTweet.org

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Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner files to run for the House seat that Marcia Fudge would vacate if she’s confirmed to housing and urban development secretary (Biden hasn’t yet formally announced the intent to nominate Fudge) — PolitiTweet.org

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Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner files to run for the House seat that Marcia Fudge would vacate if she’s confirmed to agriculture secretary (Biden hasn’t yet formally announced the intent to nominate Fudge) — PolitiTweet.org

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Saleha scoop > — PolitiTweet.org

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When Vilsack files his financial disclosure, he’ll have to include his post-caucus lottery win. — PolitiTweet.org

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Vilsack's support for Biden goes back to his short-lived '87 campaign. And the Vilsacks were all over Iowa this year trying to boost Biden's struggling campaign. Often, Tom introduced Biden & Christie spoke afterwards, asking people to commit to caucus. https://t.co/wn91onxN6n — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden has chosen Tom Vilsack to be his agriculture secretary, reprising a role he spent all 8 years of the Obama admin in. And Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge is his pick for housing & urban development sec. They'll both be introduced later this week in Del. https://t.co/kGsFOaSfn8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Sharpton on opposition to waiver for Lloyd Austin to become defense secretary: "We will not accept getting to the black guy and all of a sudden we're going to change what we've already done twice." — PolitiTweet.org

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When there are names "like a Tony West or like a Deval Patrick, they should not be held to a different standard than anyone else in American history," Sharpton says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Al Sharpton says he told Biden and Harris today that his preference is to have a Black attorney general and "the least we could have is someone who has a proven civil rights background." — PolitiTweet.org

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National Urban League's Marc Morial says the hour and 45 minutes meeting with 7 civil rights groups this afternoon was "the most important meeting that the president-elect and the vice president-elect have held" since being elected. — PolitiTweet.org

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During their meeting with Biden and Harris today, the NAACP asked for the creation of a National Advisor on Racial Justice, Equity and Advancement https://t.co/6n00gOmZQp — PolitiTweet.org

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There is no front runner at this point for Biden's labor secretary pick, a person familiar says amid reporting that there is one. — PolitiTweet.org

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he's running — PolitiTweet.org

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@justinsink @vmsalama shot shots shots shots shots — PolitiTweet.org

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Murthy:"The truth is that the very best policies and even the best vaccines and treatments will not heal our nation unless we also overcome the fear, anxiety, anger & distrust that so many Americans are feeling right now. So more than anything, I will come to this role as a dr." — PolitiTweet.org

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"This is the toughest challenges America's ever faced -- one of the toughest, but we know that we can overcome and heal together as one nation," Biden says. — PolitiTweet.org

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"By now, Tony -- Dr. Fauci -- needs no introduction," Biden says. "Dr. Fauci is trusted, a truth-teller, a patriot. Like every good doctor, he'll tell me what I need to know, not what I want to know." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says he's chosen Vivek Murthy to serve as surgeon general again "but with expanded responsibilities. He will be a key public voice on the covid response to restore public trust and faith in science and medicine." He tells Murthy: "when you speak, people listen." — PolitiTweet.org

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"It should be a national priority to get our kids back into school and keep them in school," Biden says. If Congress provides funding and localities put measures in place "then my team will work to see that a majority of our schools can be opened by the end of my first 100 days." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden promises at least 100 million shots in the arms of Americans in the first 100 days of his administration. — PolitiTweet.org

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"My first 100 days won't end the Covid-19 virus. I can't promise that," Biden says. But "I'm absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better" by requiring masks wherever possible and urging people wear them. — PolitiTweet.org

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"It's a team of world-class experts at the top of their fields, crisis tested, defined by a deep sense of duty, honor and patriotism," Biden says of the people he's picked for his health team. — PolitiTweet.org

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"As a country we've been living with this pandemic for so long we're at risk of becoming numb to its toll on all of us," Biden says as he prepares to introduce members of his health team. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @josh_wingrove: Trump just announced a batch of appointments, including: * Elaine Chao (the current Transport Secretary, to the Kennedy… — PolitiTweet.org

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Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge will be in the Biden cabinet, Rep. Clyburn said on Morning Joe. “Look for her to be in the cabinet. It may not be at agriculture but she will be nominated to be in the cabinet.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Cedric Richmond says at WSJ CEO Council event he’s looking at establishing “a position that reaches out to conservatives” in the White House Office of Public Engagement. — PolitiTweet.org

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Transition clarifies timing, sounds like AG isn’t this week: “President-elect Biden will announce additional members of his cabinet before Christmas, including his nominee for Secretary of Defense and members of his economic and domestic cabinet before the end of this week." — PolitiTweet.org