In a statement, President Joe Biden said Tanden had requested that her name be withdrawn from consideration.
“I have accepted Neera Tanden’s request to withdraw her name from her appointment as Director of the Office of Management and Budget,” Biden said in a statement. “I have the utmost respect for her accomplishments, her experience and her advice, and I look forward to having her serve in my administration. She will provide valuable perspective and insight into our work.”
In a letter to Biden, Tanden said it was the “honor of a lifetime” to be considered for the role.
“I appreciate how hard you and your team worked at the White House to win my confirmation. Unfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no way forward to get confirmation, and I do not want the continued consideration of my nomination a distraction is not your other priorities, ‘Tanden wrote.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Census Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah have all said in recent weeks that they will oppose her confirmation, pointing to Tanden’s past criticism of social media lawmakers.
Without Manchin’s support, Tanden would have needed a Republican senator to vote in favor of it, and Collins is seen as a potential “yes” vote. Democrats have a narrow majority in a 50-50 Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris able to cast votes in the chamber.
Teeth apologized and regretted her previous tweets during the Senate confirmation hearings last month.
She appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Committee and apologized for some of the criticisms she had previously leveled at Republican Republicans and lamented previous tweets. Teeth later faced senators in the Budget Committee, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who speaks to Democrats, who said some of her comments in the past amounted to ‘brutal attacks on progressives’. ‘.
In the days after the election, Tanden also removed more than 1,000 tweets from her personal account, some of which were reviewed by CNF’s KFile.
Teeth would have led an important economic position overseeing the drafting of the president’s proposed budget for his agenda once she was confirmed.
The White House has consistently supported Teeth for the role. Biden said he has no plans to get Tanden’s nomination and that he believes they will get the votes to confirm her. Senate leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he is working with Biden to raise the necessary support to confirm Teeth.
After Manchin and Collins came out against Tanden’s nomination, White House press secretary Jen Psaki released a statement in support of Tanden.
“Neera Tanden = competent policy expert, would be the first Asian American woman to lead OMB, has already had a lot of experience with the benefit of a number of federal programs as a child,” Psaki said in a tweet.
This is a striking story and will be updated.