{"id":557558,"date":"2021-06-08T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557558"},"modified":"2021-06-08T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:37:25","slug":"senate-gop-delays-biden-opm-nominees-confirmation-over-support-of-abortion-and-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-delays-biden-opm-nominees-confirmation-over-support-of-abortion-and-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP delays Biden OPM nominee\u2019s confirmation over support of abortion and Critical Race Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fsenate-gop-delays-biden-opm-nominees-confirmation-over-support-of-abortion-and-critical-race-theory%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=557558&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_2419116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2419116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiran Ahuja is photographed. (ANDREW HARNIK \/ AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:18 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, June 8, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s controversial pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management has faced pushback from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has continued to lead efforts in blocking the nomination of Kiran Ahuja from advancing. During her confirmation hearing, Hawley reportedly raised concerns about Ahuja\u2019s support for abortion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2419117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2419117\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2419117 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Josh Hawley is photographed. (Carolyn Kaster\/AP Photo)\" width=\"971\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1.jpg 971w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1-656x437.jpg 656w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2419117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Josh Hawley is photographed. (Carolyn Kaster\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The senator also pressed her on whether she would push critical race theory in federal directives after her recent endorsement of an article that claimed the election of President Trump in 2016 was an example of white supremacy. It is the same topic Hawley brought up during a hearing in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not made any of those type of statements about the election,\u201d Ahuja claimed. \u201cI have been in the philanthropic space for the past few years and so no I can\u2019t speak to that particular position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley went on to argue that the director of what is essentially the federal government\u2019s human resources department should strive to unite Americans and not divide them based on race.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/colonial-pipeline-ceo-testifies-about-response-to-ransomware-attack\/\">Colonial Pipeline CEO Testifies About Response To Ransomware Attack<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiran Ahuja is photographed. (ANDREW HARNIK \/ AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 4:18 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Joe Biden\u2019s controversial pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279691,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate GOP delays Biden OPM nominee\u2019s confirmation over support of abortion and Critical Race Theory","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-3-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate GOP delays Biden OPM nominee\u2019s confirmation over support of abortion and Critical Race Theory","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557558","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=557558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}