California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Alex Padilla will fill the vacancy left by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate.
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** DECEMBER 23, 2020
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Prior to taking office on January 20, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden (D) and his team must prepare for the transition between presidential administrations, including selecting senior White House staff and appointees to top government positions.
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.
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** APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS
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** MIGUEL CARDONA, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
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Biden announced ([link removed]) Miguel Cardona as his nominee for secretary of education on Tuesday night. Cardona has served as the Connecticut commissioner of education since 2019. He began his career in education as an elementary school teacher. He then worked as a principal for a decade before becoming the superintendent for teaching and learning in Meriden, Connecticut, in 2013.
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* Biden digital director Rob Flaherty said ([link removed]) on Tuesday that Twitter will not automatically roll over followers of the @POTUS (33 million) and @WhiteHouse (26 million) accounts to the Biden administration. Those accounts will be archived under different names and the primary accounts reset to zero followers. In 2017, President Donald Trump (R) inherited outgoing President Barack Obama’s (D) 13 million followers under those account names. Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio said Twitter was in “ongoing discussions with the Biden transition team on a number of aspects related to White House account transfers.”
* Biden said ([link removed]) the Pentagon was not briefing his transition team on the suspected Russian cyberattack and other national security issues. In a responding statement, a representative from the Pentagon directed Biden’s team to the Cyber Unified Coordination Group for such a briefing.
* California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced ([link removed]) on Tuesday that state Secretary of State Alex Padilla ([link removed]) will fill the vacancy ([link removed]) left by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in the U.S. Senate for the remaining two years of her term.
* Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) discussed ([link removed]) the confirmation process for Biden’s nominees, saying on Monday, “They aren’t all going to pass on a voice vote, and they aren’t all going to make it, but I will put them on the floor.”
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** TRANSITION IN CONTEXT: WHAT ARE CONFIRMATION SHERPAS?
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Congressional affairs staff members and volunteers who guide nominees ([link removed]) through the confirmation process are known as sherpas. They are familiar with Senate protocol and help nominees navigate the intricacies of each committee’s filing requirements and culture during confirmation hearings.
In 2016, the Trump Transition had more than a dozen sherpas for Cabinet-level nominees. According to the Center for Presidential Transition, “All the sherpas had congressional experience and most had worked in a senior capacity in the Senate … The Trump administration took a more decentralized approach to the role of the sherpa for lower-level nominees and delegated this responsibility to different staff within the agencies.”
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* CT Mirror: As Biden eyes Cardona for education secretary, focus is on how he handled school reopening ([link removed])
* Newsweek: Nearly 60 Percent of Biden's Cabinet Appointments So Far Are Obama Officials ([link removed])
* Politico: How the Georgia runoffs could delay Biden's Cabinet ([link removed])
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