{"id":1004,"date":"2020-11-17T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:19:39","slug":"progressives-turned-out-for-joe-biden-now-they-want-a-big-role-in-his-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Progressives turned out for Joe Biden. Now they want a big role in his administration."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1005\"\/><figcaption><em>Gregory Krieg<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/181204102234-annie-grayer-small-11.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Annie Grayer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Gregory Krieg and Annie Grayer, CNN<br>Updated 6:02 AM ET, Tue November 17, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/200202165516-04-iowa-candidates-warren-biden-sanders-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(CNN)Joe Biden won&#8217;t be sworn in for another 64 days, but the President-elect is already under pressure from activist groups to bring progressive leaders into his administration &#8212; and close its doors to establishment figures with cozy relationships to Wall Street, defense contractors and the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The pressure campaign has played out in public, with the release of open letters and lists of acceptable candidates for top Cabinet positions, via private calls with potential nominees, and on social media, where progressive groups have warned the incoming administration against reneging on Biden&#8217;s promise to forge an aggressive new path in the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Top progressives are, for now, sounding a cautiously optimistic tone following the release of Biden&#8217;s &#8220;agency review teams&#8221; and his quick decision to name longtime adviser Ron Klain, who has built bonds across ideological lines, as his White House chief of staff. But there are potential fights on the horizon and the uncertainty surrounding control of the Senate could further complicate a detente that has largely carried over from the campaign. If Democrats fail to win both run-off elections in Georgia early next year, the body will remain under the control of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell &#8212; and everything from Biden&#8217;s legislative agenda to his Cabinet nominations would likely face partisan blockades<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/17\/politics\/biden-transition-progressives-pressure\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/17\/politics\/biden-transition-progressives-pressure\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lire la Suite:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U2 - A Sort of Homecoming Live (Official Video) 1985\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnF8lMnLXsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Mother Jones Politics 22 hours ago<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The Squad Doubled Its Ranks. Now What?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/voghtkara-web.jpg?resize=96,96\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Kara Voght Reporter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20200923_zaa_nc09_045.jpg?resize=1300,731\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Jamaal Bowman attends a news conference on Capitol Hill on September 23, 2020. Tom Williams\/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><sub>Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters<\/sub><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cori Bush wanted to make something clear when I spoke with her the day after the election. \u201cI don\u2019t hate police,\u201d she said gently. The newly elected House member had unseated a 20-year incumbent in Missouri\u2019s safely Democratic 1st District based on her record of activism in Ferguson, where the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown turned Black Lives Matter into a national movement. During her primary, Bush told me that the House\u2019s police reform bill, passed a month after George Floyd\u2019s death, was \u201ctoo soft\u201d and criticized its lack of \u201creal \u2018defund\u2019 language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDefund the police\u201d is shorthand activists like Bush have long used to describe their desire to slash police budgets and reinvest those funds into social services. But the parlance of her movement, she told me, had been distorted and weaponized by her GOP opponent during the general election, who painted her as \u201cthis anti-police, hateful person,\u201d she told me in our call after her win. \u201cI loathe what [police] allow\u2014the fact that they\u2019ve had problems in their departments, in their unions, that they have not addressed,\u201d Bush clarified. \u201cAnd the result is dead bodies who look like me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bush didn\u2019t aim her explanation at anyone in particular, but it eerily anticipated the criticism that her soon-to-be-colleague Rep. Abigail Spanberger lobbed on a call with fellow Democratic House members the following day. \u201cIf we don\u2019t mean \u2018defund the police,\u2019 we shouldn\u2019t say that,\u201d the moderate first-term House Democrat, who nearly lost her race in central Virginia, seethed. She also said, \u201cWe need not ever use the word \u2018socialist\u2019 or \u2018socialism\u2019 ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/the-squad-cori-bush-jamaal-bowman-mondaire-jones-aoc\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/the-squad-cori-bush-jamaal-bowman-mondaire-jones-aoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lire la Suite:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gregory Krieg and Annie Grayer, CNNUpdated 6:02 AM ET, Tue November 17, 2020 (CNN)Joe Biden won&#8217;t be sworn in for another 64 days, but the President-elect is already under pressure from activist groups to bring progressive leaders into his administration &#8212; and close its doors to establishment figures with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=1004\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-alexandriaaoc","post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gouvernance","category-music","category-news-politics","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}