Significance of this announcement:
- Biden’s office claims that this will be the first time the communications positions will be filled entirely by women.
- Biden’s office claims that the move to appoint an all-women senior media team shows Biden’s continued commitment to building an administration that “looks like America”.
- Four of the seven appointments are women of colour. Harris has called the team “barrier shattering”.
- He has chosen former Barack Obama administration's State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary.
