President Joe Biden announced he is picking Jeff Zients as his next chief of staff, ushering in a new top aide as he prepares to launch a reelection bid while contending with a divided Congress.
Zients is replacing longtime chief of staff Ron Klain, who announced Friday that he would step down from his post around the time of the Feb. 7 State of the Union address next month. Klain in a letter to White House staff said he would leave after “completing an orderly handoff to my successor.”
Biden praised Klain in a letter Friday, saying he’d known him since Klain was a third-year law student who came to work on the Senate Judiciary Committee.