On Wednesday, the Chairman US Senate Committee on Finance Chuck Grassley said the panel would consider President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, next week ahead of Inauguration Day.

Point to be noted that she was confirmed in 2014 as chair of the Federal Reserve.

She received 26 votes from senators and 19 of them are still in the upper chamber of US Congress.

There were 18 senators not voting and 12 of them are still sitting senators, and only 3 lawmakers crossed party lines to vote in favor of her nomination, including Sens.

Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Richard Burr of North Carolina.Yellen has a long history of serving under Democratic administrations.

Yellen was appointed to help guide the US economy following the 2008 financial crisis.

The White House also suggested that it considers King Salman to be the US president’s equal and not his son MBS (Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman), who is widely considered to be the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

The press secretary of White House, Jen Psaki was asked at her daily briefing to follow up an answer she had given at a session a week earlier on whether the US still considers Israel and Saudi Arabia to be its allies.

She also answered on Israel and said President Biden’s first call with a Middle Eastern leader will be with the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Psaki also discussed Saudi Arabia and said, “You know, we’ve made clear from the beginning that we’re going to recalibrate our relationship with Saudi Arabia”.The press secretary added, “And part of that is going back to engagement, counterpart to counterpart.

And that’s certainly a shift from the approach of the prior administration”.

The comments of Psaki are supposedly an attempt to step back from the influential crown prince.However, former President Donald Trump preferred to deal with MBS and made his first overseas trip as president to Riyadh.