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Biden nominates candidate for top position in USAID
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- 05 February, 2021
- 05:45
US President Joe Biden has sent the candidacy of the former US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, to the post of head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for consideration by the US Senate, Report informs, referring to TASS.
Biden’s decision to nominate Samantha Power to this post was announced in mid-January. Now the Senate must set a date for a hearing, at which Power will answer questions from legislators, and some time after that, a vote will be held in the upper house to approve her candidacy for the post of USAID head.
The 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, 50-year-old Irish native, Power served as US Ambassador to the UN from 2013 to 2017.
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