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Proposed Biden Administration
Version 1.3 April 19, 2020
Version 2.0 August 13, 2020

The 2020 Presidential Election determines whether Donald Trump will be replaced by Joe Biden.  But that's not all.

If Joe Biden wins the presidency, the Executive Branch will be managed -- not by just one person -- but by a whole new administration.  Here is Version 2.0 of my recommendations for the people to serve in the Biden administration.
 

Your comments and questions are invited and may be submitted here.



U. S. Executive Branch

Incombent

Recommended

Comments

1

President

Trump

Biden

[1]

2

Vice President

Pence

Harris

[13]

3

Cabinet Secretaries

 

 

[11]

4

State

Pompeo

[2][12]

5

Treasury

Mnuchin

Porter

[9]

6

Defense

Esper

Sestak

 

7

Attorney General

Barr

Klobuchar

[3][14]

8

Interior

Bernhardt

Gravel

 

9

Agriculture

Perdue

Vilsak

 

10

Commerce

Ross

Pritzker

 

11

Labor

Scalia

Perez

 

12

Health & Human Services

Azar

Klain

[4]

13

Housing & Urban Development

Carson

Patrick

 

14

Transportation

Chao

Moulton

 

15

Energy

Brouillette

Steyer

[10]

16

Education

DeVos

Buttigieg

 

17

Veteran Affairs

Wilkie

Ojeda

 

18

Homeland Security

Wolf

Johnson

[5]

19

Cabinet Level Officials

 

 

 

20

White House Chief of Staff

Meadows

Steele

[7]

21

U.S. Trade Representative

Lighthizer

Froman

 

22

Director of National Intelligence

Grenell

Clapper

 

23

Office of Management & Budget

Mulvaney

Yang

 

24

Director of CIA

Haspel

Gillibrand

 

25

Environmental Protection Agency

Wheeler

O'Roark

 

26

Small Business Administration

Carranza

Sweet

 

27

National Security Advisor

O'Brien

Hill

 

28

Director of FBI

Wray

McCabe

[8]

29

National Economic Council

Kudlow

Krugman

 

30

Senior Advisors

 

 

[6]

31

Peace Plans & Various Projects

Kushner

Weld

 

32

Immigration & Naturalization

Miller

Castro

 

33

Social and Political Causes

Trump, I.

Richards

 

34

White House Officials

 

 

 

35

Press Secretary

Grisham

Wallace

 

36

Legal Counsel

Cipollone

Bahrara

 

37

Intergovernmental Affairs

Hoelscher

Jolly

 

 

Comments indexed above will be found summarized here along with recommendations for
Joe Biden's campaign officials and surrogates.

For your convenience, please find a collection of references tabulated below.

 

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Roster of Democratic Primary Candidates for POTUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

          Withdrew During the Primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bennet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deval_Patrick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Steyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang


          Withdrew Before the Primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock_(American_politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Delaney_(Maryland_politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hickenlooper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Messam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Moulton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ojeda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ryan_(Ohio_politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sestak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Swalwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson

 

          Distinguished Democrats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Contreras-Sweet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeh_Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Klain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Porter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Pritzker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Richards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Vilsack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Yates

 

Converted Republicans for ‘Team of Rivals’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jolly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Weld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolle_Wallace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray

 

          Impeachment Witnesses

https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump#House_Intelligence_Committee_hearings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hill_(presidential_advisor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Taylor_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Yovanovitch

 

 



 

            Cabinet and Incumbents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State
          
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bernhardt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Agriculture

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Perdue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Ross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Labor

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Scalia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Azar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Transportation

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Energy

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brouillette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilkie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wolf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Economic_Council_(United_States)

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow

 

 

            Cabinet Level Officials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney [acting]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lighthizer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Haspel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_R._Wheeler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Small_Business_Administration

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovita_Carranza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_(United_States)

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._O%27Brien_(attorney)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Intergovernmental_Affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hoelscher

 

Senior Advisors and Prominent Persons in the Trump Administration  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner#Senior_Advisor_to_the_President

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)#Trump_administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump#Senior_Advisor_to_the_President_of_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Crozier