President-elect Joe Biden is bringing his winning campaign staff with him to the White House.
On Tuesday, Biden revealed several big hires to fill his White House senior staff, including bringing his winning campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon on as deputy chief of staff. She'll join Biden's expected chief of staff Ron Klain, who led the Obama administration through the Ebola outbreak and was added to the Biden team last week.
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Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, another veteran of the Obama administration, will be chief of staff to soon-to-be first lady Jill Biden. Anthony Bernal, a longtime aide to Jill Biden, will be her senior adviser.
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) also confirmed Tuesday he would join the Biden White House as a senior adviser and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, dealing a brutal blow to the Democrats' congressional baseball team.
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