President-elect Barack Obama won’t name his Treasury Secretary or other members of his cabinet this week, according to two reports.
Obama won’t name his top economic advisers before the economic summit that President Bush has scheduled for this weekend, reports Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter. The candidates most often mentioned for the top Treasury post are Lawrence Summers, former Harvard University president and the Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
Obama won’t name other members of his cabinet this week, either, according to Marc Ambinder, who speaks to an aide on Obama’s transition team.