Joe Biden selected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his nominee for secretary of health and human services. Welcome to Ballotpedia's Transition TrackerDecember 7, 2020Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election. The Electoral College will meet on December 14, 2020, to vote for the next president of the United States. In 2016, there were 1,714 government positions subject to presidential appointment: 1,242 positions required Senate confirmation and 472 did not. The new administration is also responsible for filling thousands of other positions across the federal government, including in operations and policy. Every weekday, Ballotpedia is tracking potential Cabinet nominees, appointments, and news related to the Biden presidential transition. Appointments and NominationsBiden announced key health and COVID-19 positions in his administration on Monday. Xavier Becerra, secretary of health and human servicesBecerra is the attorney general of California. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 terms, where he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Social Security, and chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon generalMurthy previously served as U.S. surgeon general during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017 after being confirmed 51-43 by the U.S. Senate. He is a physician and former vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWalensky is the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, where her research has focused on HIV/AIDS. Biden also announced the following four positions:
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Transition in Context: What is an agency review team?Agency review teams are established by incoming administrations to evaluate the current operations, budgets, and regulations of federal agencies, commissions, and councils. They help support the transition between administrations. The Biden Transition’s agency review teams are primarily volunteers. There are also a few full-time employees hired by the transition and detailees funded by the General Services Administration. The Biden Transition established more than three dozen agency review teams, covering groups from Arts and Humanities to the Department of State to the United States Postal Service. What We're Reading
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