President-elect Joe Biden is anticipated to choose Jake Sullivan as his national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, several sources knowledgeable about the plans told NBC News.
Sullivan served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to then-Vice President Biden before functioning as director of policy planning at the State Department and as deputy chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sullivan later functioned as a senior policy advisor to Clinton’s 2016 governmental campaign.
Thomas-Greenfield worked as the assistant secretary of state for Africa from 2013 to 2017 under former President Barack Obama. Before that stint, she served as U.S. ambassador to Liberia.
The news comes one day prior to incoming White Home chief of staff Ron Klain said Biden will begin openly calling his Cabinet officials. NBC News reported Sunday that former deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken is expected to be named secretary of state.
Meanwhile, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will fulfill virtually with the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday as the surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continues heading into Thanksgiving.
The non-partisan organization includes the mayors of more than 1,400 cities, each with a population of 30,000 or more.
The conference has promoted state and regional aid to city governments in future coronavirus relief as settlements have actually stalled in current weeks.
In a declaration following Biden’s projected triumph over President Donald Trump, Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Greg Fischer, president of the conference, congratulated Biden and Harris.
” We stand prepared as Democrats, Republicans and Independents to come together and deal with you to beat the coronavirus and rebuild our economy,” the Democrat said. “In the days ahead, mayors across this fantastic country will do all that they can to assist you create a course forward that reinforces our neighborhoods and sustains our common humankind.”
Trump still declines to yield his loss as legal difficulties continue to come up short.
In other shift news:
- Veteran diplomat Antony Blinken is Biden’s top choice for secretary of state
- The president-elect will begin revealing Cabinet selects today
- Previous N.J. Gov. Chris Christie calls Trump’s legal efforts a ‘nationwide embarrassment’ as more Republican politicians speak up
- GOP Sen. Cramer states it’s ‘past time’ to begin shift as challenges continue
Geoff Bennett is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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