Cecilia Rouse: Nominee Currently: Tyler Beck Goodspeed (acting)
Under Trump, the chair of the three-member Council of Economic Advisers was removed from the president’s Cabinet. Biden will reinstate the position, filled by the president’s chief economist, to the Cabinet.
Cecilia Rouse
Princeton labor economist
A Princeton University labor economist, Rouse has spoken about the need for an urgent government response to the pandemic. She was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama and would be the first woman of color to chair the council.
Source: Washington Post Reported by Jeff Stein and Kevin Uhrmacher.
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