{"id":122699,"date":"2021-02-09T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122699"},"modified":"2021-02-09T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:42:55","slug":"sen-hawley-presses-neera-tanden-over-corporate-foreign-donations-to-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-presses-neera-tanden-over-corporate-foreign-donations-to-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Hawley presses Neera Tanden over corporate, foreign donations to think tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-hawley-presses-neera-tanden-over-corporate-foreign-donations-to-think-tank%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2369720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2369720\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2369720 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21040667371736-662x437.jpg\" alt width=\"662\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2369720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neera Tanden gestured as she testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee on her nomination to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Leigh Vogel\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:40 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, February 9, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) grilled Biden\u2019s pick to lead the budget office over corporate and foreign donation ties. Neera Tanden\u2019s nomination as Director of the Office of Management and Budget has received heavy criticism from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have disavowed her past comments, including accusing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of breaking the Senate, Supreme Court and our Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>At Tuesday\u2019s hearing on her nomination, Hawley raised a series of concerns over donations made to her think tank. Large sums of money that her organization received came from Big Tech, including Facebook\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2369719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2369719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2369719 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21040600593863-658x437.jpg\" alt width=\"658\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2369719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Neera Tanden as she testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee on her nomination to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Leigh Vogel\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c$665,000 I think from the personal foundation of Mr. Zuckerberg, millions of dollars from Wall Street financiers, big banks, foreign governments, Silicon Valley, $1 million from the managing partner at Bain Capital. $2.5 million from the UAE, that was between 2016 and 2018. Given this record, how can you ensure us that you\u2019ll work to see that these Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms don\u2019t exercise undo influence?\u201d Hawley asked.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley is concerned Tanden won\u2019t protect working people and will enable Big Tech and Wall Street firms to influence federal policy.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/schumer-democrats-to-push-through-partisan-covid-relief-bill\/\">Schumer, Democrats To Push Through Partisan COVID Relief Bill<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neera Tanden gestured as she testified before the Senate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893043,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6079,3690,6077,3972,4578,6078],"class_list":["post-122699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corporate","tag-hawley","tag-neera","tag-over","tag-presses","tag-tanden"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}