Susan Rice in Biden campaign vs. Biden administration
On Principles & Values:
Well-honed interagency process and crisis management skills
Deeply experienced, talented negotiator who has played a key role in winning major concessions and sealing agreements with America's toughest adversaries to advance U.S. national interests.
Has exceptional leadership, policy formulation and implementation experience as well as extremely well-honed interagency process and crisis management skills.
Source: 2020 Biden transition website BuildBackBetter.gov
Dec 27, 2020
On Government Reform:
2020 Election: Our democracy has held
In her op-ed, Rice said that after Biden's victory and the rejection of the Trump campaign's lawsuits, "our democracy has held." "Perhaps only when the stars are optimally aligned -- when voters turn out in huge numbers, when the
outcome is not close, when state and local officials and the courts adhere to the rule of law, when foreign interference is thwarted, when the media behaves responsibly and when people remain peaceful -- can our democracy endure its greatest tests."
Source: The Hill e-zine on 2021 Biden Administration
Dec 22, 2020
On Government Reform:
Make Domestic Policy Council like National Security Council
The idea is for Rice to reshape the Domestic Policy Council, or DPC, so it operates more like the more prestigious National Security Council, which she oversaw during the Obama administration. Biden is banking on Rice's
blunt style and her experience coordinating policy across a sprawling bureaucracy. "If she's not in a meeting, she will bust through the door," a senior transition official said. "And everybody knows that, including Joe Biden."
Source: NBC News on 2021 Biden administration
Dec 21, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Father Federal Reserve governor; mother crafted Pell Grants
She spent her career in public service focused on foreign policy -- first as assistant secretary of state for Africa affairs during the Clinton administration, then as Obama's ambassador to the U.N. and, in his second term, as national security adviser.
But as a child, she was a student of domestic policy. Her father was a governor of the Federal Reserve, and her mother helped craft the Pell Grant program. Economic mobility and racial justice, she said, "are issues I was raised on."
Source: NBC News on 2021 Biden administration
Dec 21, 2020
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