Neera Tanden: Nominee Currently: Russ Vought
The White House budget office acts as the nerve center of the government, an elite career workforce that prepares and helps administer the annual spending plan and helps set fiscal and personnel policy for federal agencies.
Neera Tanden
President, Center for American Progress
Tanden, president of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, was a key player in passing the Affordable Care Act. Her outspoken critiques of Republicans on Twitter have drawn outcry from some in the GOP. She would be the first woman of color to oversee the OMB. She would be the first woman of color to oversee OMB.
Source: Washington Post Reported by Lisa Rein and Jeff Stein.
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2021-01-12 Biden OMB nominee Neera Tanden received $731G over 2 years from liberal nonprofit Neera Tanden, Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), disclosed earning $731,528 from the Center for American Progress (CAP) for the last two years, along with thousands in investments and speaking fees, according to the documents. That amounts to about $365,000 a year.
A longtime Democratic operative, Tanden worked on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s two presidential campaigns. Under former President Obama, she also helped draft the Affordable Care Act legislation as an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She previously described CAP’s mission as becoming the “central hub of the Trump resistance.”
2020-12-28 Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken Personify the ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party What’s so moderate about being on the take from rich beneficiaries of corporate America while opposing proposals that would curb their profits in order to reduce income inequality and advance social justice?
For OMB director, Biden selected corporate centrist Neera Tanden, whose Center for American Progress thrives on the largesse of wealthy donors representing powerful corporate interests. Tanden has been a notably scornful foe of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing; former Sanders speechwriter David Sirota calls her “the single biggest, most aggressive Bernie Sanders critic in the United States.” Who better to oversee the budget of the U.S. government?
For Secretary of State, Biden chose his longtime top foreign-policy adviser, whose frequent support for U.S. warfare included pushing for the disastrous 2011 military intervention in Libya. Antony Blinken is a revolving-door pro who has combined his record of war boosterism with entrepreneurial zeal to personally profit from influence-peddling for weapons sales to the Pentagon. Who better to oversee diplomacy for the U.S. government?
2020-12-02 Who Is Neera Tanden, Biden’s Most Controversial Cabinet Pick? Neera Tanden is CEO of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. She served in the Clinton administration, was a key player in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, and went on to serve in the Obama administration, helping craft the Affordable Care Act. But it isn’t her resume that’s generating the heat – it’s the fight she’s waged on Twitter and elsewhere. Texas Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, noted Tanden has deleted a lot of tweets recently that were critical of the very Senate Republicans who may decide her fate.
Radioactive. And it’s not just Republicans. She has also tangled with Bernie Sanders supporters who see her as too centrist, though in recent days, other progressive senators have come to Tanden’s defense.
2020-12-01 Biden’s pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP Neera Tanden, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year
2020-12-01 Neera Tanden deletes over a thousand tweets amid Biden OMB nomination
2020-11-30 Is this Joe Biden pick already doomed? Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton referred to Tanden as a “partisan hack.”“Neera Tanden, who has an endless stream of disparaging comments about the Republican Senators’ whose votes she’ll need, stands zero chance of being confirmed,” tweeted Drew Brandewie, communications director for Texas Sen. John Cornyn.Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), described the Tanden pick as a “sacrifice to the confirmation gods.”“Neera Tanden is a big-government, big-spending radical liberal who’s a terrible choice for OMB Director,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) tweeted. “It’s just more proof that @JoeBiden and the Democrats will continue to move further and further to the Left.”
2019-04-16 Neera Tanden: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Neera Tanden is the president of the Center for American Progress, an influential left-leaning think tank. The Center for American Progress has been in the public eye recently, ever since its website, ThinkProgress, suggested that Bernie Sanders was a hypocrite for attacking the wealthy. The site pointed out that Sanders himself is a wealthy man. On Saturday, Bernie Sanders fired back at the Center for American Progress. In a letter obtained by the New York Times, Sanders accused the think tank of working to “smear” him and other Democratic 2020 candidates. A New York Times article argues that the “bad blood” between Neera Tanden and the Bernie Sanders campaign goes back over a decade.
Sanders Said the Center for American Progress Has Also ‘Smeared’ Elizabeth Warren & Cory Booker. Sanders Said Neera Tanden ‘Belittles Progressive Ideas’ & Said the Center for American Progress May Be Influenced by Corporate Money. Tanden Worked on Hillary Clinton’s First Presidential Campaign & Worked for the Bill Clinton White House. Tanden Is a Child of Immigrants & Her Family Was on Welfare for Years of Her Childhood. Tanden & Her Husband Have Two Children.
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