Julián Castro: Biden, Harris Are ‘Living up To Their Promise To Appoint a Cabinet That Looks Like America’
Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro is praising President-elect Joe Biden , and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for their cabinet picks. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are living up to…
Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro is praising President-elect Joe Biden, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for their cabinet picks.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are living up to their promise to appoint a cabinet that looks like America, and we know that representation does matter,” Castro said during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday.
He added:
“What also matters though is as soon as January 20, 2021, comes around, then we need in earnest to start reversing the damage of the Trump administration and to go beyond where we were a few years ago to build off of the work of the Obama administration. So there are going to be very high expectations on what they do.”
Host Lawrence O’Donnell argued Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Latino to lead the Department of Homeland Security, “will put a completely different frame” on how he does the job.
Castro called Biden’s decision to tap Mayorkas for the position a “welcomed change.”