President Joe Biden withdrew his nomination of Neera Tanden for White House budget director on Local 2 over the objections of key fellow senators, becoming the first Cabinet nominee to be defeated. Biden said Tanden’s letter requested that her nomination be withdrawn, but that she would be placed in other positions on the team in other capacities.
However, Tanden, who has served on the Clinton campaign and as executive director of the leftist think tank Center for American Progress, sparked opposition from many members of Congress when she was nominated in the past.
Tanden, 50, is Indian-American, but her previous controversial statements about cross-party activists were the main reason why lawmakers voted against the nomination. For example, Tanden tweeted that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was “Moscow Mitch” in reference to working for Russia, or that Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was “ignorant. “ignorant”; even deleting thousands of tweets before the hearing. Although Tanden apologized to the Republicans involved during his confirmation hearing, both Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (D-CA) and Republican Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) have stated that they will oppose Tanden’s nomination.
In addition, the opposition of Manchin, a member of the same party, also shows the weak power of the Democratic Party in the Senate. Due to the 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans, even with the addition of Vice President He Jinli’s vote, Tanden’s appointment will still not pass.
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