Neera Tanden, nominated President Joe Biden as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testified at a Senate committee on the budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 10, 2021.
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Democrat Senator Joe Manchin will vote against Neera Tanden’s nomination to run the office of management and budget and endanger her confirmation in a key Biden administration post.
Unless a Republican supports Teeth, Manchin’s opposition will split its confirmation into a Senate split 50-50 per party. In a statement to NBC News on Friday, the senator in West Virginia quoted Tanden’s tweets sitting senators turning across the political spectrum.
“I believe her openly biased statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget,” said Manchin, a Conservative Democrat, who Biden already has to some coronavirus. lighting issues. “For this reason, I can not support her nomination.”
If she does not get enough support, Tanden would be the first Biden government to fail to win Senate confirmation. No Republicans said they would vote for her yet. President Joe Biden’s choice of Teeth has caused more setbacks than any other choice of job in the executive branch.
Tanden, president of the center-right Center for American Progress and an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, confronted the Senate earlier this month about her criticism of lawmakers. Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio, pointed out tweets in which she compared Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, Senate minority leader to Harry Potter villain Voldemort, saying “vampires have more heart” than GED Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Senator Bernie Sanders also took note of Tanden’s history of ‘vicious attacks’ on progressives and the independent senator from Vermont himself. Clinton allies and the Center for American Progress clashed with Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential election amid disputes over the party’s future.
Teeth apologized to senators this month during her confirmation hearings.
“I am sorry and apologize for my language and of my previous language,” she said.
Teeth apparently deleted more than 1,000 tweets before her confirmation process began.
The OMB Director helps plan and execute the federal budget and executive branch programs. Tanden, a daughter of Indian immigrants, would be the first woman of color to hold the post if confirmed.
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