{"id":124108,"date":"2021-02-10T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124108"},"modified":"2021-02-11T00:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T05:27:26","slug":"very-partisan-figure-bidens-budget-office-pick-grilled-over-past-social-media-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-partisan-figure-bidens-budget-office-pick-grilled-over-past-social-media-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Partisan Figure\u2019: Biden\u2019s Budget Office Pick Grilled Over Past Social Media Conduct"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fvery-partisan-figure-bidens-budget-office-pick-grilled-over-past-social-media-conduct%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=124108&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Neera-Tanden.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, was pressed during a Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?508651-1\/senate-confirmation-hearing-neera-tanden-wh-budget-director-nominee\">committee hearing<\/a> Wednesday over her past conduct on social media and comments about political opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), ranking member of the budget committee, said that Tanden wasn\u2019t \u201cthe unity pick\u201d he expected from the Biden administration, and called her a \u201cvery partisan figure.\u201d Graham pointed to a comment she made about Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who she called \u201cMoscow Mitch,\u201d and another comment she made in which she accused the Republican Party of having a \u201ccapacity for evil\u201d that \u201cknows no bounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the budget committee, also mentioned Tanden\u2019s behavior on social media in his line of questioning, although he didn\u2019t single out specific tweets. (Back in December, only days after Tanden was announced as Biden\u2019s pick for the budget office, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/02\/politics\/kfile-neera-tanden-deleted-tweets-slamming-gop\/index.html\">reported<\/a> that Tanden had deleted more than 1,000 tweets from her personal Twitter account.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYour attacks were not just made against Republicans, they were vicious attacks made against progressives, people who I have worked with, me personally,\u201d said Sanders. \u201cSo as you come before this committee, to assume a very important role in the United States government, in a time when we need serious work on serious issues, and not personal attacks on anybody, whether they\u2019re on the Left or the Right. Can you reflect a little bit about some of your decisions and the personal statements you\u2019ve made in recent years?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tanden responded: \u201cI recognize that my language and my expressions on social media caused hurt to people, and I feel badly about that, and I really regret it, and I recognize it\u2019s really important for me to demonstrate that I can work with others, and I look forward to taking that burden, and I apologize to people on either the Left or Right who are hurt by what I\u2019ve said.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sanders told Tanden that it wasn\u2019t so much about offending people with insults, but stressed the importance of \u201cexpressing differences on policy,\u201d and not resorting to personal attacks. In response, Tanden said she would \u201cabsolutely\u201d take a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media does lead to too many personal comments, and my approach will be radically different,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Later in the hearing, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said he was \u201cvery disturbed\u201d about the personal nature of her online comments, and accused Tanden of calling Sanders \u201ceverything but an ignorant slut.\u201d She denied doing so, but again told the committee that she felt badly about her online comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kennedy then asked her nearly a dozen times whether she was sincere when she made the comments, and after deflecting that same question repeatedly \u2014 including twice trying to blame the political discourse on social media instead of answering the question \u2014<\/span> <span>Tanden finally answered him: \u201cSenator, I must have meant them, but I really regret them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, was pressed during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her past conduct on social media and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893162,"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":[3706,4463,6329,5660,4422,4926],"class_list":["post-124108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bidens","tag-budget","tag-figure","tag-office","tag-partisan","tag-pick"],"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\/124108","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=124108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}