The Biden Transition

President-elect Joe Biden announced plans on Friday to overhaul the vaccine distribution program to combat the coronavirus, which includes administering 100 million doses within the administration’s first 100 days.

William Burns served as an ambassador to both Russia and Jordan. The career diplomat worked in the foreign service for 33 years.

President-elect Joe Biden says President Donald Trump isn’t “fit for the job,” but he repeatedly refused to endorse growing Democratic calls that he be impeached for a second time

President-elect Joe Biden officially introduced Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as his nominee for transportation secretary. Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Jennifer Granholm for Energy Secretary. Here are five things you need to know.

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Tom Vilsack to serve as Agriculture Secretary. Here are five things you need to know.

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary Health and Human Services delivered remarks on Tuesday. “It’s our turn to discover the breathtaking opportunities before us in the midst of this hardship and pain,” Becerra said. “It’s our turn to build up and to back up our doctors and medical professionals.”

President-elect Joe Biden has introduced top advisers he says will help his administration rebuild an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced his senior economic team, including his plans to nominate the first woman to head the Treasury Department as well as a slew of liberal economists and policy specialists who established their credentials during the previous two Democratic administrations. In a statement, Biden said he would nominate Janet Yellen, the former Federal Reserve chair, to...

Weeks after election day, the Trump administration has lifted the main road block that prevented official transition efforts of President-elect Joe Biden and his team. While insisting his legal challenges aimed at overturning the election results continue and he believes he will prevail, President Trump gave the green light to Emily Murphy, the controversial head of the General Services Administration,...

Three weeks after the presidential election, the U.S. General Services Administration contacted President-elect Joe Biden on Monday to begin the transition process.

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama-era officials for top national security and economic roles, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances and favored deregulation and tax cuts. The picks include former Secretary of State John Kerry to take the lead on combating climate change. Biden is also expected to choose Janet Yellen, who...

President-elect Joe Biden named Jake Sullivan to serve as national security adviser. Here are five things you need to know.

President-elect Joe Biden named Jake Sullivan to serve as national security adviser. Here are five things you need to know.

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security. Here are five things to know about the former deputy secretary of DHS.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discusses the refusal of the General Services Administration to make an official ascertainment that Joe Biden is president-elect. The ascertainment is required before the president-elect can receive resources for a transition

President-elect Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election “sends a horrible message on who we are as a country.” Biden also clarified while he has no plans to use litigation to force the Trump administration to share critical coronavirus intel with the Biden-Harris transition team, he cannot rule out taking legal...

President-elect Joe Biden has been forced to seek extraordinary workarounds to prepare for the exploding public health threat and evolving national security challenges he will inherit in just nine weeks

President-elect Joe Biden has named Steve Ricchetti as senior counselor to the president

President Donald Trump continues to claim his defeat was a victory.