One person who won’t be attending President Joe Biden‘s 2024 State of the Union address is Education Secretary Miguel Cardonas, this year’s designated survivor.
Instead of being in the House of Representatives, Cardonas will watch what could be Biden’s last presidential report to Congress from a secure location so there can be continuity of government in case there is an attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was the State of the Union designated survivor in 2022 and then-Labor Secretary Marty Walsh was her counterpart in 2023. Walsh, the former mayor of Boston, is now executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association.
The practice of choosing a designated survivor, typically a responsibility of the White House chief of staff with the person having to be eligible to be president, dates back to the Cold War, with Congress introducing
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