Biden Friends Expected on First Slate of Ambassadors

“President Biden is expected to begin naming his choices for high-profile ambassador postings in May or possibly as soon as this week, revealing winners among a pecking order of Biden friends, donors and aides that spans decades,” the Washington Post reports.

“The process has been complicated by sensitivity to naming candidates other than the coterie of well-connected White people, most of them men, who have been the mainstay of Biden’s political circle.”

The selection process has taken longer than it has for Biden’s predecessors because of that issue and because Biden “knows too many people and he has too many friends.”