To review, Joe Biden picked a Health and Human Services Secretary nominee with no background in health care or HC policy… during a pandemic.

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Former national-security adviser Susan Rice, who has spent her whole career in foreign policy, will be in charge of Biden’s domestic policy.

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Pete Buttigieg, who has no particular connection or experience with China, may be named U.S. ambassador to China.

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Biden’s pick for secretary of veterans affairs, former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough, is not a veteran and has no experience focused specifically on veterans issues.

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Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio, who wanted to be secretary of agriculture and specifically said she didn’t want to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development… was picked to run HUD.

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Tom Vilsack, who was secretary of agriculture for all eight years of Obama’s presidency, is apparently going back to the same job.

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Ernest Moniz is reportedly under consideration to be secretary of energy again. Much like Jake Blues, Biden is getting the band back together.

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You can like and respect all of these nominees, and still look at their resumes & experience and the jobs they’re expected to step into and go… “huh? Wait, why that person in that job?”

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Maybe these nominees will be fine. Maybe managerial instincts matter more than a background in a particular policy area.

Or, you know, maybe not.

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Joe Biden likes and trusts “his people,” and has faith in them — and apparently doesn’t really care if they’re experienced in a particular policy area or not.

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