White House Administration and Budget Director nominee Neera Tanden attends a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Feb. 10, 2021.
The White House confirmed Tuesday (March 2) evening that Biden is withdrawing Neera Tanden’s nomination for director of the White House Office of Administration and Budget (OMB), the first Time since the Biden Administration took office that it has been unsuccessful in appointing its choice of Cabinet officials.
According to a Biden statement released by the White House, he said, “I have accepted Neera Tanden’s request (to return the nomination), and I am removing her name from the nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget.”
Biden added, “I have great respect for her accomplishments, experience and advice, and I look forward to her role in my administration. She will bring valuable perspective and insight to our work.”
According to Fox, Tanden had recently asked Biden to no longer consider her for the Budget Director position. In her letter to Biden, she said, “Unfortunately, it now appears clear that there is no path forward to confirmation, and I do not want (you) to continue to consider my nomination, which would distract you from other priorities.”
Tanden has drawn the ire of lawmakers in the past for publicly bashing several members of Congress on social media, vowing to vote against them, while some have called for Biden to be replaced.
Although she has deleted the relevant postings, but still failed to appease opponents, and recently even in the confirmation hearings repeatedly under fire, outsiders have long predicted that her nomination fears difficult to get passed in the Senate.
The White House Administration and Budget Director is tasked with managing the government’s budget, as well as overseeing various logistical and regulatory issues throughout the federal government. After Tanden’s withdrawal, the Biden administration has not yet had a clear successor.
According to the Associated Press, possible replacements for Tanden include: Shalanda Young, former chief of staff of the House Appropriations Committee; Ann O’Leary, former chief of staff to the governor of California; and Gene Sperling, who served as a senior economic adviser to former President Clinton and Obama. Sperling.
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