Biden expected to nominate Raimondo as Commerce secretary, Walsh as Labor secretary

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Gina Raimondo as Commerce secretary, Marty Walsh as his Labor secretary and Isabel Guzman as Diminutive Commerce Administrator, folks familiar with the selections told NBC Records Thursday.

Raimundo has served because the Democratic governor of Rhode Island since 2016. Walsh has served because the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014. Guzman has served because the director of California’s Blueprint of business of the Diminutive Commerce Recommend since 2019.

Biden is furthermore expected to nominate Don Graves, who served as govt director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in the Obama White House, as deputy Commerce secretary, the two folks familiar with the selections mentioned.

Records of Biden’s expected nominations got here moments sooner than he modified into blueprint to formally introduce Merrick Garland as his choice to manual the Justice Department.

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Earlier Thursday, Biden formally announced he had picked Garland, the federal use who Republicans denied a seat on the Supreme Court docket in 2016, to attend as his attorney general. Biden furthermore announced he would nominate Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general, Vanita Gupta as partner attorney general and Kristen Clarke as assistant attorney general for civil rights.

NBC Records reported details of Biden’s Justice Department picks Wednesday afternoon.