Why it matters: President Biden has pledged a diverse Cabinet and government, and his gatekeepers to it reflect that promise through their own ranks.
The backstory: The office is in charge of recruiting new government employees and managing their benefits. The president has yet to name an office director, but Kathleen McGettigan โ a longtime civil servant who also served in a temporary capacity at the start of the Trump administration โ currently is acting director.
Some of the new hires at the office:
- Chief of staff: Chris Canning served as a senior adviser to the director of the office during the Obama administration.
- General counsel: Lynn Eisenberg most recently served as deputy general counsel for the Biden-Harris campaign.
- Press secretary: Shelby Wagenseller was deputy chief operating officer of the 2020 Democratic National Convention Committee.
- Senior adviser to the chief of staff: Dave Marsh most recently served on the Biden-Harris transition team.
- Senior adviser to the director: Mini Timmaraju most recently was executive director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Comcast.
- White House liaison: Jason Tengco was the chief of staff for the Biden-Harris campaign's coalitions department.
Large companies like Marvel and Disney got woke, and hired their script writers, directors and actors according to diversity checkboxes. The result were ineffably terrible movies that hardly anyone wanted to see, even if it had been highly successful franchises like Star Wars or Batman. Now, after millions of losses, the survival instinct kicks in at highest level, and the woke crews are phased out.
Only thing is, the politicians don't really depend on our willingness to buy their "product" ...