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Klain is one of Biden's closest confidants and first worked for
the Democrat in 1989 when he was a U.S. senator. He was in
charge of the Barack Obama administration's response to the
Ebola health crisis in 2014, when Biden was vice president.
A fierce critic of Republican President Donald Trump's handling
of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Klain was expected to be a
key figure in Biden's response to the health crisis.
“Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have
worked together, including as we rescued the American economy
from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later
overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014,” Biden said
in a statement.
Klain said in a statement: “It's the honor of a lifetime to
serve President-elect Biden in this role, and I am humbled by
his confidence. I look forward to helping him and the Vice
President-elect assemble a talented and diverse team to work in
the White House."
Klain was Biden's vice-presidential chief of staff and was most
recently a senior advisor to Biden's presidential campaign.
(Additional reporting by Ted Hesson and Lisa Lambert in
Washington; Editing by Kim Coghill and Sonya Hepinstall)
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