Politico has a long list of prospective Cabinet picks:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/10/29/warren-wants-treasury-but-who-does-biden-want-490749Perez is just one of the many names popping up for prospective Biden Cabinet posts, as speculation grows more feverish less than a week out from the election. Plenty of the names being floated are just that: speculation. But conversations with those in Biden’s orbit and others in relevant fields suggests some favorites are starting to emerge. Here are the names that keep coming up the most in recent conversations on each department:
DEFENSE: Former Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy
STATE: Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Chris Coons
TREASURY: Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Roger Ferguson
JUSTICE: Perez, Sen. Doug Jones, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
HOMELAND SECURITY: Becerra, former Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, North Carolina Health Secretary Mandy Cohen
ENERGY: Former Deputy Energy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former Assistant Energy Secretary Dan Reicher, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
INTERIOR: Sen. Tom Udall, Sen. Martin Heinrich, Rep. Deb Haaland
EPA: Inslee, California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols
AGRICULTURE: Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Rep. Cheri Bustos, Rep. Marcia Fudge
COMMERCE: Ariel Investments co-CEO Mellody Hobson, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, former eBay and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman
LABOR: Rep. Andy Levin, California Labor Secretary Julie Su, AFL-CIO Chief Economist Bill Spriggs
EDUCATION: Former NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia, AFT President Randi Weingarten, Stanford professor emeritus Linda Darling Hammond
HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Rep. Karen Bass
TRANSPORTATION: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Assistant Transportation Secretary Beth Osborne, Rep. Earl Blumenauer
U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE: Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, former Biden General Counsel Nelson Cunningham
VETERANS AFFAIRS: Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, Sen. Tammy Duckworth
U.N. AMBASSADOR: Amb. Wendy Sherman, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg
