The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Anita Dunn is an American political strategist serving as a senior advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden,having originally held the post from January 20,2021,to August 12,2021,and returning May 5,2022.
Michael C. Donilon is an American attorney and campaign consultant who is a longtime advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden. He was the chief strategist of Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and currently serves in the same capacity in the 2024 presidential campaign. He was a senior advisor to Biden during the first three years of his presidency. Prior,Donilon was working as a partner at AKPD Message and Media. Between 2009 and 2013,he served as Counselor to Vice President Biden in the Obama administration. Prior to his White House appointment,Donilon worked with the vice-presidential candidate to help him prepare for the debates and also as a traveling advisor.
Howard Daniel Pfeiffer is an American political advisor,author,and podcast host. He was senior advisor to President Barack Obama for strategy and communications from 2013 to 2015.
Jennifer Rene Psaki is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations,she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary until May 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served in the Obama administration as the White House deputy press secretary (2009);the White House deputy communications director (2009–2011);the spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015);and the White House communications director (2015–2017). Psaki was a political contributor for CNN from 2017 to 2020. As of March 2023,she hosts the talk-show Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC.
Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been formally used since 1993.
Sheila Nix is an American attorney and political strategist who served as Chief of Staff to Jill Biden,the Second Lady of the United States from April 2013 to January 2017.
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend is an American political strategist and political commentator currently hosting MSNBC's The Weekend. She served as national press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. She left the campaign abruptly in late June 2016,saying "she was not let go and that leaving the campaign was her decision." In October 2016,she was hired as a Democratic strategist and political commentator by CNN.
Herbie Ziskend is an American political advisor and a deputy director of communications for the Biden administration since August 2022. He has previously served as a communications advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022,and as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
Karine Jean-Pierre is an American political advisor who has served as the White House press secretary since May 13,2022. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve in the position. Previously,she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris,a United States senator from California from January 2017 to 2021,officially began on January 21,2019,with an announcement on Good Morning America. Harris had widely been considered a "high profile" candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries since 2016.
Alyssa Farah Griffin is an American political strategist and television personality. She was the White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. She is a co-host of the daytime talk show The View and also appears on CNN as a political commentator.
The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States took place on Wednesday,January 20,2021,marking the start of the four-year term of Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president. The 59th presidential inauguration took place on the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington,D.C. Biden took the presidential oath of office,before which Harris took the vice presidential oath of office.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez is an American political rights activist and campaign manager for President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.
Mary Valerie Biden Owens is an American political strategist,campaign manager and former educator. She is the younger sister of Joe Biden,the 46th and current president of the United States. In 2016,President Barack Obama nominated her as alternate representative of the United States to the 71st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Caroline Rose Giuliani is an American filmmaker,political activist,and writer. She is the daughter of Rudy Giuliani,the former Mayor of New York City. Giuliani has received national media attention for publicly disagreeing with and criticizing her Republican father's politics and political endorsements.
The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7,2020,and ended on January 20,2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions,which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20,Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the outgoing Trump administration did not recognize Biden as the "apparent winner" until November 23.
Katherine Joan Bedingfield is an American political advisor who served as the White House Communications Director in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as deputy campaign manager for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and as communications director for Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
Sabrina Singh is an American administrator who has served as the Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary in the Department of Defense since April 2022. Singh previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Vice President Kamala Harris in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2022.
