Jeff Zients, the White House’s Covid-19 response czar, speaks during a press briefing on the White House where they spoke a couple of pause in issuing the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine on April 13, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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Jeff Zients will function President Joe Biden’s next chief of staff, in accordance with media reports on Sunday.
Zients, who helped steer the Biden administration’s Covid-19 response and perform its ambitious vaccine campaign, briefly left the White House in April before returning in the autumn to assist the present chief of staff, Ron Klain, prepare for turnover within the administration following the midterm elections.
Klain has been open about his intent to eventually leave his post, and he’s reportedly preparing to step down in the approaching weeks, in accordance with a Saturday report from The Recent York Times.
Klain, a longtime adviser to President Joe Biden, supported Biden through his 2020 campaign and has helped guide the Biden administration since he was elected to office. After the midterm elections in November and an action-packed two years within the White House, Klain has told colleagues that he’s ready for something different, a Washington Post report said.
Klain previously acted as Biden’s chief of staff during former President Barack Obama’s first term, and he’s worked with Biden since he ran for president back in 1987. Zients, in contrast, has spent most of his profession within the private sector and first made his foray into politics throughout the Obama administration.
Though Zients has a comparatively limited political background in comparison with Klain, he’s a “master implementer” and “engenders deep loyalty” from his colleagues, the Post reported.
A White House representative didn’t immediately reply to CNBC requests for comment.
