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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders FIGHTING To JOIN Biden's Administration & Wants To Be Secretary of Labor
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4:43Now PlayingBREAKING: Bernie Sanders FIGHTING To Be In Biden's Administration & Wants To Be Secretary of Labor
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Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary
Sen. Bernie Sanders is hoping to be a part of Joe Biden’s potential administration and has expressed a particular interest in becoming Labor secretary, two people familiar with the conversations tell POLITICO.
“I can confirm he's trying to figure out how to land that role or something like it,” said one person close to the Vermont senator. “He, personally, does have an interest in it.”
Sanders on Wednesday declined to confirm or deny that he’s putting his name forward for the position.
“Right now I am focused on seeing that Biden is elected president,” he told POLITICO. “That’s what my main focus is.”
Former Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said Sanders has not talked directly with anyone on the Biden campaign about a future role, but plans to push Biden, his former Senate colleague, to "include progressive voices" in both the transition and in a potential new administration.
Yet two other people close to Sanders, including one former aide, said the senator has expressed interest in being in the administration, should Biden win in November. Sanders has been making his push for the top job at the Labor Department in part by reaching out to allies on the transition team, one person familiar with the process said.
When asked about Sanders’ potential role, a spokesperson for Biden’s transition team repeated the transition's stock line: that they are “not making any personnel decisions preelection.”
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