#shorts On 1/27/2023, a reporter pressed on White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “And with the Chief of Staff news today, that position is one of the more powerful ones in Washington that has never been held by someone who is not white and male. Would the President commit to choosing a Chief of Staff who is not white and male if Jeff Zients were to leave before the end of the President’s term?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Here’s what I say — I’ll say to this. I’m certainly not going to get ahead of the President. That is not something that I can do from here.

But look — and I kind of said it at the top — the Biden Harris administration is the most diverse in history. That is a fact. And we expect to — we expect this trend to continue. The Cabinet is majority people of color for the first time in history. The Cabinet is majority female for the first time in history. The majority of White House senior staff identify as female. Forty percent of White House senior staff identify as part of racially diverse communities. A record six assistants to the President are openly LGBTQ.

And also, of our — if you think about of our 30,000 — about 3,000 appointees: 58 percent female, 51 percent people of color, 6 percent disabled, 31 percent first-generation Americans, 17 first-generation college grads, and 14 percent — when I say — 17 percent first-generation college grads — I forgot to add that “percent” — and 14 percent LGBTQ. And I think that matters.

This is a — this is a — this is a record that the President is truly proud of, and I think not just the President, but all of us here

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/FwGh9Bh–dQ
Q: Choosing WH Chief of Staff not white & male? A: proud of majority people of color & majority female