Neera Teeth Confirmation: Major IDP swings vote not to decide whether to support Biden’s dire budget choice

Neera Teeth Confirmation: Major IDP swings vote not to decide whether to support Biden’s dire budget choice

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Murkowski told reporters she “followed up on questions” after the Capitol Hill meeting, which she described as “a good conversation”.

“Still doing my assessment,” Murkowski added.

After her meeting with Teeth, Murkowski sits with Alaska GOP Senator Dan Sullivan on the floor and gives what appears to be a debrief to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team.

Teeth’s nomination has been in trouble since Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced his opposition, saying her “openly biased statements” against Republican senators and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator during his presidential campaigns, were poisonous. and would have a detrimental impact on the relationship between Congress and OMB. In a 50-50 senate, any Democratic aberration must be replaced by a Republican vote and so far no one has emerged. Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona also did not commit to voting for the OMB director.

Murkowski also expressed concern about Tanden’s social media history.

“We seem to have become a little numb in this world to derogatory tweets,” Murkowski said last week. “I do not think it’s a model we want to set for anyone, whether it’s a nominee, whether it’s a president or whether it’s a senator. So I want us all to cool it down. .
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Teeth apologized at her confirmation hearings and expressed regret over some of her tweets. First, Ohio GOP Senator Rob Portman read out Teeth’s insults to Republican senators.

“To name just a few of the thousands of negative public statements, you wrote that Susan Collins is ‘the worst’, that Tom Cotton is a cheater, and that vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz,” Portman said. “You called leader McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch’ and Voldemort. And so on. I specifically wonder how you intend to repair fences and build relationships with members of Congress who have attacked you through your public statements? “

The White House began privately to consider alternative candidates, but reiterated its support for Teeth in public. Press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that she was “a leading policy expert bringing critical qualifications to the table during this time of unprecedented crisis.”

Psaki added that the White House was “fighting” on behalf of the Teeth and did not want to call the committee’s postponement a setback.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said if Tanden was not confirmed, she would be appointed to another position not considered by the Senate.

Tanden served as CEO and president of the Leftist Center for American Progress. She previously worked as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration, focusing on the Affordable Care Act, and as policy director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008.

This story was updated on Monday with additional developments.

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