Biden to name first Cabinet picks on Tuesday, top aide says

Klain mentioned that by doing so, the Biden transition was “beating, in fact, the pace that was set by the Obama-Biden transition, beating the pace set by the Trump transition.”

“But if you want to know what Cabinet agencies they are and who’s going to be in those Cabinet agencies, you’ll have to wait for the president-elect to say that himself on Tuesday,” he added.

Biden final week announced several senior White House staff appointments and advised reporters that he has already determined on his choose to lead the Treasury Department, though he didn’t reveal the individual’s name. Among the top candidates for the put up is Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, who served as a senior Treasury Department official within the Obama administration.

President Trump, in the meantime, is refusing to concede the election to Biden and continues to make false accusations of widespread voter fraud.

The president and his marketing campaign authorized workforce have largely failed of their efforts to problem the election within the courts. And whilst most Republicans on Capitol Hill have refused to acknowledge Biden’s win, some have shifted course in current days.

Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), who is not running for reelection in 2022, mentioned Saturday that Trump had “exhausted all plausible legal options” in Pennsylvania, after a federal decide dismissed a Trump marketing campaign lawsuit that sought to block the certification of the state’s outcomes.

“I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris on their victory,” Toomey said in a statement.