Biden introduces his economic team at a moment of big risks.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. launched key members of his financial crew on Tuesday, as he prepares to imagine the White Home at a second when the financial restoration from the coronavirus pandemic is slowing and thousands and thousands stay out of labor.

Mr. Biden, talking at an occasion in Delaware, mentioned he was constructing “a first-rate crew that’s going to get us via this ongoing financial disaster.”

The president-elect known as on Congress to go a “sturdy” rescue package deal to assist households, companies and state and native governments, saying many communities are “teetering on the sting.”

Mr. Biden is poised to enter the White Home at a time of nationwide disaster amid the worsening virus outbreak. The Department of Labor and Department of Commerce have reported a rise in functions for state jobless advantages and a lower in private revenue. Coronavirus circumstances have soared in current weeks, a growth that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell known as “regarding” in testimony earlier than lawmakers on Tuesday, saying it “may show difficult within the subsequent few months.”

In an indication of how crucial a task financial coverage will play within the Biden administration, the President-elect mentioned he was returning the chair of the Council of Financial Advisers to a cabinet-level place. President Trump had demoted the C.E.A. chair throughout his administration.

Mr. Biden has chosen Cecilia Rouse to guide the Council of Financial Advisers; she would be the first Black woman in the role. Ms. Rouse is a Princeton economist who labored on the Council of Financial Advisers throughout a part of the Obama period and on the White Home’s Nationwide Financial Council in the course of the Clinton administration.

Mr. Biden has warned of a “very darkish winter” forward and called on Congress to pass relief to assist employees, companies, and state and native governments. Mr. Biden’s advisers are getting ready for what could possibly be one other economic downturn in early 2021. However one other financial stimulus package deal has languished in Congress, the place Democrats and Republicans have been unable to achieve a deal, although leaders of each events have known as for compromise in current days.

A bipartisan group of senators rolled out a possible compromise plan on Tuesday morning that appeared to suit the contours of what Mr. Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic chief, have mentioned should body any stimulus deal in Washington. They embrace extra support to the unemployed and small companies, together with cash to assist state and native governments patch funds holes which have been ripped open in the course of the pandemic.

Tuesday’s slate of nominees and appointees consists of a number of girls in prime financial roles. The picks, markedly completely different from Mr. Trump’s cupboard, which has been overwhelmingly white and male, comply with Mr. Biden’s campaign promise to construct an administration that appears like America.

His choose for the Workplace of Administration and Finances — Neera Tanden, the chief govt of the Heart for American Progress — can be the primary Indian-American to guide the workplace if confirmed. Mr. Biden additionally chosen Janet L. Yellen, a former Federal Reserve chair, to be his Treasury Secretary. If confirmed, she can be the primary lady to fill the place.

Ms. Tanden has met speedy resistance from Republican senators who’ve criticized her for attacking Republicans publicly, together with on her Twitter feed. She previewed the group’s doubtless emphasis on private tales in a Twitter submit on Monday, after her nomination was introduced: “After my dad and mom have been divorced once I was younger, my mom relied on public meals and housing applications to get by,” she wrote. “Now, I’m being nominated to assist guarantee these applications are safe, and guarantee households like mine can reside with dignity.”

Mr. Biden additionally introduced his picks for deputy treasury secretary, Adewale Adeyemo, and members of the Council of Financial Advisers, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey.

Mr. Adeyemo served as a senior worldwide financial adviser underneath former President Barack Obama, and Mr. Bernstein was Mr. Biden’s first chief economist when he was vp. Ms. Boushey, a prime coverage adviser to Hillary Clinton in 2016, leads the Washington Heart for Equitable Progress, a liberal suppose tank centered on inequality.

The introductions comply with a similar event final week, when Mr. Biden publicly launched members of his international coverage and nationwide safety crew.