After A Divisive Poll, A Rainbow Cabinet

Joe Eyes ‘Most Diverse Cabinet’ In US History

- Shane Goldmacher, Glenn Thrush and Michael D Shear

Joseph Biden’s advisers accelerated their transition-planning on Saturday with the first senior officials in a Biden White House possibly named as early as next week. In Wilmington and Washington, Biden’s advisers and allies are ramping up their conversations about who might fill critical posts, both in the West Wing and across the agencies, guided heavily by Biden’s plan to assemble what would be the most diverse cabinet in history.

Biden, who ran from Day 1 on a message of bringing the country together, is said to be interested in making a bipartisan gesture as he plans a prospective government after a divisive election whose results President Trump has tried to undermine. Biden is looking to fill out his possible White House staff first, with cabinet posts not expected to be announced until around Thanksgiving (November 26), according to over a half-dozen people familiar with the planning. Biden’s team quietly began raising money for his transition operation in May and has raised at least $7 million to pay for its efforts. The Biden camp has prepared for multiple scenarios in case Trump refused to concede and his administration would not participate in a transition.