#Biden taps Obama chief of staff as Veteran Affairs secretary

Joe Biden continued his Obama 2.0 cabinet and staff rollout Thursday.

The president-elect is set to nominate former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Denis McDonough to lead his Veterans Affairs Department, according to reports.

McDonough, a former deputy national security adviser, served as Obama’s chief from 2013 until he left office in 2017.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, a veteran of the Afghanistan war and a former South Bend, Indiana, mayor, had been one of the names floated for the cabinet role, but on Thursday Politico confirmed that McDonough had been tapped for the job.

McDonough is only the latest Obama-era official to be added to Biden’s cabinet — a move that is likely to further anger progressives in the party.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been installed in a newly created climate role while Biden’s former chief of staff Ron Klain will return to the role.

In an interview with Axios published Wednesday, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) griped that Biden hadn’t made good on his promise to break away from the previous eight years of Obama.

“The progressive movement deserves a number of seats — important seats — in the Biden administration. Have I seen that at this point? I have not,” Sanders said.

“I’ve told the Biden people: The progressive movement is 35 to 40 percent of the Democratic coalition,” he added.

“Without a lot of other enormously hard work on the part of grassroots activists and progressives, Joe would not have won the election,” he went on.