Joe Biden begins filling out his lean 2024 campaign team

President Joe Biden is growing his unusually small reelection campaign team, announcing Monday plans to add three new people to the payroll.

Former Rep. Cedric Richmond is joining as campaign co-chair. Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford will serve as finance chair of Biden-Harris 2024 and DNC National Finance Chair Chris Korge will join as finance chair of the Biden Victory Fund, the larger of the president’s joint fundraising committees.

The Biden campaign has a run a bare-bones operations since the president announced his reelection bid in April, spending less than some Senate candidates and employing just four people: Campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez, principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, spokesperson Kevin Munoz and general counsel Maury Riggan.

The announcement comes days after the campaign revealed its $72 million fundraising haul with the DNC in the second quarter. Though it’s less than the past two presidents raised during the same time in their reelection bids, Biden does have more cash on hand than former President Barack Obama did at this point in the cycle — in part because of the lean operation he’s running.

“Our campaign is off to a strong start, securing early endorsements and unified support from across the Biden-Harris coalition, and a historic quarter for our fundraising operation,” Chávez Rodríguez said in a statement. “Already, this team has shown its ability to think outside the box to raise money, and bring in supporters across the country for the President and Vice President. With this talented team at the helm, I’m confident our campaign will have the resources it needs to win again in 2024.”