After initial major appointments went to centrists and pillars of the Democratic establishment, liberals are starting to leave their mark on President-elect Joe Biden’s evolving Cabinet.

The wing of the Democratic Party best represented by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still underrepresented among Biden’s announced picks for the Cabinet and senior White House staff. But the Department of Health and Human Services, where liberal California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will take charge, is not a consolation prize. And Sanders’s 2016 campaign press secretary Symone Sanders (no relation) will be Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s chief spokeswoman after spending 2020 on the Biden team, while liberals have vetoed foes from assuming key positions at the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense.