Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that no administration has ever looked 'less like America' than President Joe Biden’s. Is that true?
, which was 83% white and 83% male. Former President Barack Obama’s first Cabinet was 68% male and 54% white according to a PolitiFact analysis."100 key staff positions in the Executive Office" during Biden’s first 300 days as president. These positions included the chief of staff, senior advisers and directors.
at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank."To the contrary, a staff that includes more women and non-whites looks more like the broader population base."Outside of the specific demographic makeup of Biden’s administration, Carlson’s claim fails to account for the country’s history. For nearly two centuries, women and Black people went completely unrepresented in the executive and judicial branches of government, despite being a part of the overall U.S. population.
It wasn’t until the 1900s that women and Black people began filling positions in the president’s Cabinets and the federal judiciary.to the U.S. Customs Court, now the U.S. Court of International Trade, becoming the first female federal judge.became the first Black federal judge, after being appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Federal District Court in the Virgin Islands.became the first woman in a presidential Cabinet. Roosevelt appointed her to be secretary of labor.
This is wrong. Researchers have touted Biden’s administration as one of the most diverse in the country’s history, thus looking more like the U.S. population. The claim also fails to take into account that for nearly two centuries, only white men were represented in the Cabinet and the federal judiciary. Even though women and people of color lived in the country.Email exchange, Andrew Bates, White House deputy press secretary, Feb. 14, 2023Email exchange, Fox News spokesperson, Feb. 14, 2023
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