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2月27日星期五，美国国务院发言人珍·普萨基在华盛顿参加一个会议...
德尔·威尔明顿。当选总统乔·拜登他的白宫将有一个全女性的高级沟通团队，这反映了他明确表示的建立一个多样化的白宫团队的愿望，以及对更传统的新闻业务的回归。
拜登竞选传播主任凯特·贝丁菲尔德将担任拜登的白宫传播主任。民主党长期发言人珍·普萨基将担任他的新闻秘书。
据一位知情人士透露，在白宫运作的另一个领域，拜登计划任命自由派智库美国进步中心(Center for American Progress)的总裁兼首席执行官尼拉·坦登(Neera Tanden)为管理和预算办公室(Office of Management and Budget)主任。这位知情人士不愿透露姓名，以便自由谈论内部审议。
白宫七个顶级沟通职位中的四个将由有色女性担任，这是整个白宫高级沟通团队首次全部由女性担任。
总统唐纳德·特朗普颠覆了他的政府与媒体沟通的方式。与以往的政府相比，特朗普的沟通团队很少举行新闻发布会，那些确实发生的事件往往是充满不准确和虚假的好斗事件。
特朗普本人有时担任自己的新闻秘书，接受媒体的提问，他经常通过拨打他最喜欢的福克斯新闻节目来完全绕过白宫新闻团队。
拜登在宣布白宫沟通团队的声明中表示:“直接、真实地与美国人民沟通是总统最重要的职责之一，这个团队将被赋予将美国人民与白宫联系起来的巨大责任。”
他补充说:“这些合格的、有经验的沟通者为他们的工作带来了不同的视角，并共同致力于将这个国家建设得更好。”
贝丁菲尔德、普萨基和坦登都是奥巴马政府的老兵。贝丁菲尔德在拜登担任副总统期间担任他的通信总监;Psaki曾是白宫通讯主任和国务院发言人;坦登担任卫生和公众服务部部长凯瑟琳·西贝利厄斯的高级顾问，并帮助起草了《平价医疗法案》。
加入白宫通信部门的其他人员有:
——郭佳欣·让·皮埃尔，副总统当选人卡玛拉·哈里斯的幕僚长，将担任总统当选人的首席副新闻秘书。她是奥巴马政府的另一名毕业生，曾担任白宫政治事务办公室的地区政治主任。
——皮尔·托巴尔(Pili Tobar)曾是拜登竞选联盟的传播主任，他将担任白宫副传播主任。她最近是移民改革倡导组织“美国之声”的副主任，也是纽约州参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默的新闻工作人员
拜登竞选团队的三名高级顾问将被任命担任最高传播职务:
——众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)的前通信主任阿什利·艾蒂安(Ashley Etienne)将担任哈里斯的通信主任。
——拜登竞选团队的另一位高级顾问西蒙·桑德斯(Symone Sanders)将担任哈里斯的高级顾问和首席发言人。
——伊丽莎白·亚历山大(Elizabeth Alexander)将担任吉尔·拜登(Jill Biden)的传播主任。亚历山大在担任美国特拉华州参议员期间，曾担任前副总统的新闻秘书和他的传播主任。
由于冠状病毒大流行，拜登的竞选活动变得虚拟化后，他因记者无法接触到他而面临一些批评。但在竞选接近尾声时，他更频繁地回答媒体的问题，他当选总统后，他的过渡团队每周都举行简报会。
许多奥巴马政府的资深人士——其中许多人与华盛顿记者团有着深厚的关系——的选择也表明了与新闻界恢复更友好的关系。
作为OMB的首脑，坦登将负责准备拜登提交的预算，并将指挥数百名预算分析师、经济学家和政策顾问，他们对政府的内部运作有着深刻的了解。
她的选择可能会安抚进步人士，他们一直在向拜登施压，要求他在早期人事任命中表现出对进步优先事项的承诺。她被选中，而不是来自该党反赤字部门的更温和的声音，如布鲁斯·里德，他是巴拉克·奥巴马总统2010年赤字委员会的工作人员主任，该委员会提出了一系列政治痛苦的建议，但从未付诸行动。
Biden chooses an all-female senior White House press team
WILMINGTON, Del. -- President-electJoe Bidenwill have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, reflecting his stated desire to build out a diverse White House team as well as what’s expected to be a return to a more traditional press operation.
Biden campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield will serve as Biden’s White House communications director. Jen Psaki, a longtime Democratic spokeswoman, will be his press secretary.
In a different area of the White House operation, Biden plans to name Neera Tanden, the president and CEO of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to a person familiar with the transition process granted anonymity to speak freely about internal deliberations.
Four of the seven top communications roles at the White House will be filled by women of color, and it’s the first time the entire senior White House communications team will be entirely female.
PresidentDonald Trumpupended the ways in which his administration communicated with the press. In contrast with administrations past, Trump’s communications team held few press briefings, and those that did occur were often combative affairs riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods.
Trump himself sometimes served as his own press secretary, taking questions from the media, and he often bypassed the White House press corps entirely by dialing into his favorite Fox News shows.
In a statement announcing the White House communications team, Biden said: “Communicating directly and truthfully to the American people is one of the most important duties of a President, and this team will be entrusted with the tremendous responsibility of connecting the American people to the White House.”
He added: “These qualified, experienced communicators bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building this country back better.”
Bedingfield, Psaki and Tanden are all veterans of the Obama administration. Bedingfield served as communications director for Biden while he was vice president; Psaki was a White House communications director and a spokesperson at the State Department; and Tanden served as a senior adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and helped craft the Affordable Care Act.
Others joining the White House communications staff are:
— Karine Jean Pierre, who was Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ chief of staff, will serve as a principal deputy press secretary for the president-elect. She’s another Obama administration alum, having served as a regional political director for the White House office of political affairs.
— Pili Tobar, who was communications director for coalitions on Biden’s campaign, will be his deputy White House communications director. She most recently was deputy director for America’s Voice, an immigration reform advocacy group, and was a press staffer for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Three Biden campaign senior advisers are being appointed to top communications roles:
— Ashley Etienne, a former communications director for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will serve as Harris’ communications director.
— Symone Sanders, another senior adviser on the Biden campaign, will be Harris’ senior adviser and chief spokesperson.
— Elizabeth Alexander, who served as the former vice president’s press secretary and his communications director while he was a U.S. senator from Delaware, will serve as Jill Biden’s communications director.
After his campaign went virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic, Biden faced some of his own criticism for not being accessible to reporters. But near the end of the campaign, he answered questions from the press more frequently, and his transition team has held weekly briefings since he was elected president.
The choice of a number of Obama administration veterans — many with deep relationships with the Washington press corps — also suggests a return to a more congenial relationship with the press.
As head of the OMB, Tanden would be responsible for preparing Biden’s budget submission and would command several hundred budget analysts, economists and policy advisers with deep knowledge of the inner workings of the government.
Her choice may mollify progressives, who have been putting pressure on Biden to show his commitment to progressive priorities with his early staff appointments. She was chosen over more moderate voices with roots in the party’s anti-deficit wing such as Bruce Reed, who was staff director of President Barack Obama’s 2010 deficit commission, which proposed a set of politically painful recommendations that were never acted upon.
