{"id":1255411,"date":"2023-04-24T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/susan-rice-to-step-down-as-bidens-domestic-policy-chief\/1255411\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:10:05","slug":"susan-rice-to-step-down-as-bidens-domestic-policy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/susan-rice-to-step-down-as-bidens-domestic-policy-chief\/1255411\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Rice to step down as Biden’s domestic policy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden\u2019s domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, is stepping down from her post next month, multiple current and former senior administration officials told NBC News.<\/p>\n

The move brings to a close Rice\u2019s prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure overseeing Biden\u2019s domestic agenda<\/a> \u2014 including some of the thorniest political issues, such as immigration policy. During her more than two years in the role, Biden has signed executive and legislative actions on health care, gun safety, student loans, policing and other key priorities for Democrats.<\/p>\n

Rice\u2019s last day in the White House will be May 26, according to a senior administration official.<\/p>\n

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said Rice, who served as national security adviser during the Obama administration, has been critical to driving Biden\u2019s agenda and has taken the Domestic Policy Council \u201cto new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is extraordinary when you think about what she\u2019s done in terms of public service across her career, capped off by being the first person ever to be the national security adviser and domestic policy adviser,\u201d said Zients, who has known Rice since high school. \u201cIt really speaks a lot to her leadership and her range.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process for Biden to select Rice\u2019s successor will include candidates both inside and outside the White House, a second senior administration official said.<\/p>\n

Whomever Biden names to serve as domestic policy adviser for the remainder of his term will face much less of the policymaking sprint, including on legislation, that Rice did, and focus more on implementing existing policies and some additional executive actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSusan was there during this two-year period where there was just an incredible and historic burst of policymaking, and the next year and a half is going to be different. It\u2019s going to call for a different approach to policy,\u201d said Brian Deese, who worked closely with Rice while serving as director of the National Economic Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role and the requirements for the role are going to be different, and I think they\u2019ll take that into consideration,\u201d Deese added, referring to the president and his top aides.<\/p>\n

Rice, who was on Biden\u2019s short list for vice president, entered the job without a domestic policy background, having served in foreign policy roles during the Obama and Clinton administrations. Among her first moves in the Biden administration was to adopt a structure at the Domestic Policy Council similarly to that of the National Security Council, bringing in policy experts and codifying a process for convening officials across the government.<\/p>\n

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Rice\u2019s experience in foreign policy helped inform the administration\u2019s response to domestic issues, such as the global pandemic and immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a policy wonk,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cSo, in that sense it was just learning new-ish policy issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rice has told colleagues she entered the administration intending to stay two years, according to a senior administration official.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She remained in the White House a few months longer, the official said, in part to see through several projects, including a strategy for combatting antisemitism that\u2019s expected to be finalized before she leaves, a federal strategy on homelessness, and an effort aimed at reducing crime and helping formerly incarcerated people more smoothly re-enter society that\u2019s likely to be announced next week.<\/p>\n

The timing of Rice\u2019s departure also coincides with a growing controversy over the White House’s handling of migrant children who arrive unaccompanied at the southern border amid questions about whether the White House, including Rice, ignored warnings that sponsors of migrant children were making them work grueling jobs in violation of child labor laws. The White House has said that is not the case. A senior administration official said Rice is proud of her work on the border.<\/p>\n

Administration officials said the controversy has nothing to do with Rice\u2019s decision to leave, which they said was already in the works.<\/p>\n

The timing of Rice\u2019s exit also means she will remain in her job as Biden contends with an expected influx at the southern border due to the end of pandemic-era restrictions for asylum seekers. Crafting a strategy for when the policy, known as Title 42, ends <\/a>has been among one of Rice\u2019s top challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immigration is one of the issues where Rice has at times clashed with other administration officials, such as Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, over the approach to handling migrants at the border, for instance. Often described as \u201ctough\u201d and \u201cdogged,\u201d Rice also has endeared herself to some of the White House\u2019s younger staff members and maintained a close relationship with Biden, according to some of her current and former colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cSusan is blunt and direct, and some people find that style effective; some people I think are intimidated by it,\u201d said former White House chief of staff Ron Klain. \u201cBut she was a great colleague and great mentor to a lot of young people in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy White House chief of staff Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon echoed Klain\u2019s praise in a written statement. \u201cThe country and the American people are better, more secure because of her leadership,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rice hasn\u2019t ruled out a future stint in government. Her plan for now, according to a senior administration official, is to spend the summer with her family and contemplate her next act.<\/p>\n

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