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New Poll: Majority of Americans Want the Senate to Reject Biden’s Corporate Nominees

November 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment

 

From Jacobin

A Battle Over Nominees Is Already Raging

Demand Progress and the Revolving Door Project have been pressing a prospective Biden administration to break with the Clinton and Obama administration tradition of installing corporate allies in key governmental positions. The groups are poll testing potential nominees, with descriptions of their backgrounds, to gauge potential public support and opposition for a Biden cabinet.

The groups’ work received a boost when incoming US Rep. Mondaire Jones last week launched a petition calling on Biden to reject Emanuel, who has been floated for transportation secretary or trade representative.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a Black teenager, Laquan McDonald, while he was Mayor of Chicago.

That he's being considered for a cabinet position is completely outrageous and, honestly, very hurtful.https://t.co/JEB6PRyztK

— Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) November 21, 2020

Emanuel left the Chicago mayoralty in disgrace after his administration suppressed video of the police murder of a teenager. Since then, he has become a TV talking head and a senior adviser at an investment banking firm that advises big corporations on megamergers, acquisitions, and restructuring plans. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman have echoed Jones’s demand for Biden to reject Emanuel.

Regardless of what happens with Emanuel, Biden has already named two cabinet nominees tied to corporate interests, and he is reportedly considering others.

On Monday, Biden announced that he has chosen Tony Blinken to serve as secretary of state. Blinken founded WestExec Advisors, a secretive business consultancy that has worked with defense contractors. Avril Haines, a former WestExec principal, will serve as Biden’s director of national intelligence.

Biden is also reportedly considering nominating WestExec cofounder Michèle Flournoy to serve as secretary of defense, as well as two corporate lawyers — Sally Yates and Karen Dunn — to serve as attorney general and the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, respectively.

Biden did appease some progressives with the nomination of former Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen to serve as his treasury secretary. Yellen would be a rare treasury secretary who didn’t come straight from Wall Street, and she has supported deficit spending and tougher banking regulations, though she has also echoed some of the austerity rhetoric of groups aiming to cut Social Security and Medicare.

The Demand Progress poll found that 58 percent of respondents supported the nomination of Yellen, based on a description of her as an official who wants “to extend unemployment benefits and help state and local governments avoid cuts to services.”

Filed Under: Jacobin, Social Justice/社会正義

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