President-elect Biden has tapped former chief of staff Bruce Reed to join his incoming White House team despite vocal progressive concerns about his record. …
President-elect Biden has tapped former chief of staff Bruce Reed to join his incoming White House team despite vocal progressive concerns about his record. Reed,60, will serve as the 46th commander-in-chief’s deputy chief of staff, the Biden transition team announced Tuesday morning. His name was included on a list of six senior White House appointments. Reed has been a Biden adviser since the 1990s, when he worked in the White House as assistant to the president for domestic policy. It was in that capacity that he worked with Biden, then a senator, on the 1994 crime bill. “I’ve known and admired Bruce for over 20 years. We worked closely together to pass the crime bill in the 1990s and I’ve frequently sought his advice and counsel in the years since,” the then-vice president said in a statement in 2011 after announcing Reed’s appointment as chief of staff.
