Biden’s Foreign Policy Team To Adopt A Different Vision From President Trump's
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top national security nominees on Tuesday, assuring Americans that they will restore the nation globally, along with America's global and moral leadership. Although not extremely popular, these nominees boast vast experience, and their vision is quite different from President Donald Trump's.
Taking to his Twitter account on Nov. 24, Biden announced the first members of his National Security and Foreign Policy team, alongside a short clip. In his tweet, the president-elect said the new team would rally the world to take on the nation's challenges and wrote that he trusts this group to help him restore American leadership.
These represented just two of the policy changes that Biden's national security team members have pledged to enact Tuesday during an event that allowed Americans to hear directly from the nominees. Biden is counting on his team to ensure that American service members, intelligence professionals, and Biden can do their jobs without any political influence, CNBC reported.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were joined by Biden’s pick for secretary of State Antony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, who he picked to lead the Department of Homeland Security, his nominee for director of national intelligence Avril Haines, the incoming national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Aside from them, the stage in Wilmington, Delaware was occupied by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who will be serving as ambassador to the United Nations, and John Kerry, a former Secretary of State who was tapped to take on a recently created role as special envoy for climate change.
The remarks of Biden's nominees collectively gave a glimpse of a diametrically different foreign policy approach compared to the one that Trump has adopted for the past four years. The nominee's speech revolved around the importance of re-establishing the country's moral leadership, supporting human rights, and improving multilateral relationships with Democrats and allies around the world.
On Tuesday, GOP senators opposed Biden's new approach, meaning he would need votes of few Republicans to confirm his recently announced nominees to their posts. Senator Marco Rubio tweeted Tuesday that he is not interested in returning to the normal that left America dependent on China.
Noting that he supports American greatness, Rubio wrote Biden's cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools, boast impressive resumes, are present for all the right conferences, and will be polite and orderly caretakers of America's fall off. Considering Biden's previous statements on China, it looks like his administration plans to take a tougher line with their top economic adversary than former President Barack Obama did.