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CHICAGO (AP) President Barack Obama is preparing to boost the profile of an up-and-coming young Hispanic Democrat by nominating San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to become the nation's housing secretary. Obama's current housing chief gets a new title: budget director.
Obama was expected to announce his latest Cabinet shuffle at the White House on Friday afternoon, a White House official said, shortly after he returns from an overnight trip to his Chicago hometown to raise money for Senate Democratic candidates.
He was to be joined by Castro and Donovan, two men both close to the president and whose profiles would receive a significant boost from moving into the higher-profile positions. The White House official who disclosed the nominations would speak only on condition of anonymity before a pending personnel announcement by Obama.
Obama chose Castro to deliver the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and his star has been rising ever since. The two men's life stories are similar: Both are minorities raised by single mothers, they hold Harvard law degrees and saw their political careers skyrocket after giving lauded Democratic convention keynote speeches.
Castro, 39, is often among those being talked about as possible Democratic vice presidential candidates in 2016. If confirmed by the Senate, the three-term mayor would become one of the highest-ranking Hispanic officials serving at the pleasure of the president.
Donovan, 48, is highly regarded inside the White House as a strong manager. He is a lifelong affordable housing advocate whose work overseeing the federal government's response to the destruction Hurricane Sandy unleashed on the East Coast in October 2012 has earned glowing praise from White House officials, including Obama.
As director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, currently a Cabinet-level post, Donovan would have influence over administration policy and spending. He would be expected to win Senate confirmation a second time for the new post.
Donovan would replace Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Obama recently nominated Burwell to become secretary of health and human services following the resignation of Kathleen Sebelius after the disastrous rollout of the federal website for consumers to buy insurance coverage under Obama's health care law.
Obama had sought to bring Castro into the administration in the past, but he decided to stay in the job he says he looked forward to while growing up. Castro handily won a third term as mayor last year.
But his ambitions apparently have grown along with his stock as a politician with broad appeal to Democratic voters, including fellow Hispanics who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2012. Castro is Mexican-American.
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President Barack Obama used a pair of hometown fundraisers Thursday to defend Democratic control of the Senate against potential gains in the fall mid-term elections by what he called ideologically rigid Republicans.
Donors paid as much as $35,000 for a ticket to the campaign events for Illinois senior senator, Dick Durbin, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Obama warned that if Democrats fail to hold the Senate and make gains in the Republican-led House, it could stall immigration reform as well as efforts to raise the minimum wage and combat global warming.
You have a president who is fighting for you in the White House, Obama said at the first event, thrown by Michael Polsky, the president and CEO of Invenergy at his Gold Coast home. What you do not have right now is a Congress that can function.
Noting that some voters look at a gridlocked Washington and say, a plague on both their houses, Obama said it was a false equivalence, that, Oh, Congress is broken as he again defended his signature health care program against repeated Republican attempts to try to repeal it.
The problem is not Dick Durbin. The problem is not Michael Bennet, Obama said, referring to the Colorado senator who heads the DSCC. The problem is not that Democrats are overly ideological.
Instead, Obama contended, The problem in Congress is very specific. We have a group of folks in the Republican Party, who have taken over, who are so ideologically rigid.
The Republican National Committee issued a statement chiding Obama for fundraising for Durbin and for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada during the investigation of secret wait lists for care at Veterans Affairs facilities. Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, faces Republican state Sen. Jim Oberweis of Sugar Grove in the Nov. 4 election.
At the first event, Obama joked about the return of warmer weather to Chicago since his last visit in early April, as well as how he has aged during the presidency.
Im looking around and I see a lot of friends, Obama said. All of you look the same, and I look like Morgan Freeman.
The president also attended a fundraiser at the Lincoln Park home of wealthy Democratic donor Fred Eychaner, the founder of Newsweb Corp. who helped bankroll last years successful push to legalize gay marriage in Illinois.
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Obama raises money for Durbin in Chicago