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Pete Buttigieg responds on Twitter to President-elect Joe Biden choosing him to be his transportation secretary:

Up to now at the moment we now have Gina McCarthy for home local weather czar, Jennifer Granholm for head of the power division and Pete Buttigieg for transportation secretary.

The alternatives maintain coming: it seems like at the moment we even have Ali Zaidi, an aide for New York governor Andrew Cuomo, for deputy White Home local weather coordinator and Michael Regan, high environmental regulator in North Carolina, for EPA administrator.

Extra administration alternatives:

President-elect Joe Biden will choose Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, to run the power division, Politico reports.

Granholm served two phrases as Michigan’s governor and defeated the husband of training secretary Betsy DeVos to win her second time period. In November, she penned an op-ed for the Detroit Information calling for Michigan’s auto business to spend money on low-carbon financial system, stating that “the time for a low-carbon restoration is now”.

“She’s actually a pupil of the [energy] transition,” Skip Pruss, who directed the Michigan Division of Vitality, Labor, and Financial Progress beneath Granholm, advised Politico. “In case you had been to ask me what was a limitation in Michigan, I might say that she was barely forward of her time.”

Agreeing to agree right here that we agree that nobody is leaving till all of us agree on what number of extra occasions we can say the word agree in relation to the Covid bundle:

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