Biden convenes first meeting with Cabinet, the most diverse ever

Coming amid COVID-19 pandemic, full Cabinet meeting marks a key benchmark in launch of the new Biden administration.

United States President Joe Biden convened the first meeting of his Cabinet on Thursday amid social-distance protocols at the White House and plans to promote the new administration’s COVID-19 relief and recovery agenda nationwide. Biden said he was appointing five Cabinet members to work with Congress and communicate to the American public his economic plan including an emphasis on buying products made in the US. The Biden administration is committing to a buy-America plan “to make sure that when the government is spending taxpayers’ money that they’re spending on American-made goods, American corporations, and American employees,” Biden said.