{"id":909536,"date":"2021-10-22T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=909536"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:44:01","slug":"neera-tanden-named-white-house-staff-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/neera-tanden-named-white-house-staff-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Neera Tanden Named White House Staff Secretary"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fneera-tanden-named-white-house-staff-secretary%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=909536&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><\/div>\n<p>Neera Tanden was named White House staff secretary Friday, more than seven months after President Joe Biden withdrew her nomination to helm the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Staff Ron Klain announced her hiring in a morning staff call, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/neera-tanden-white-house\/2021\/10\/22\/252c0b70-32cc-11ec-93e2-dba2c2c11851_story.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Tanden, a long-time Democratic operative, previously served as an aide and adviser to Hillary Clinton during Clinton\u2019s time as first lady, senator, and presidential candidate. She also led the left-wing think tank, Center for American Progress (CAP).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.169014084507\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Neera Tanden to become White House staff secretary, 7 months after nomination to lead Office of Management and Budget was scuttled <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIyRdlXkuQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/xIyRdlXkuQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1451530852895236103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The staff secretary is responsible for managing what the president reads and hears. Previous holders of the position include Democratic New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/30\/joe-biden-neera-tanden-libya-oil\/\">announced<\/a> in November 2020 that he would nominate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/02\/white-house-joe-biden-withdraw-neera-tanden-nomination\/\">Tanden<\/a> to lead OMB, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/\">responsible<\/a> for coordinating and conveying the administration\u2019s economic and policy goals within the executive branch and to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>One of Biden\u2019s most contentious cabinet picks, she once <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/30\/joe-biden-neera-tanden-allegedly-punched-reporter\/\">punched<\/a> reporter and political operative Faiz Shakir after Shakir asked a question critical of Clinton. She also s<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/30\/joe-biden-neera-tanden-libya-oil\/\">uggested<\/a> in an email to CAP staff that Libya pay the U.S. back in oil for intervening in its 2011 civil war. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/23\/democrats-neera-tanden-biden-sexism\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Democrats Suggest Biden Nominee Neera Tanden Struggles Due To Sexism)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tanden\u2019s tweets insulting senators from both parties contributed to her losing the OMB nomination. During her confirmation hearing, tweets bashing Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and numerous Republicans, including Alaska Sen. Lisa <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/24\/neera-tanden-tweets-lisa-murkowski-confirmation-office-management-budget\/\">Murkowski<\/a>, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/24\/senate-committee-delays-hearing-neera-tanden-confirmation-unlikely\/\">publicized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mind disagreements in policy, I think that\u2019s great. I love the dialectic, but the comments were personal. I mean, you called Sen. Sanders everything but an ignorant slut,\u201d Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/10\/john-kennedy-neera-tanden-called-senator-sanders-ignorant-slut\/\">told<\/a> Tanden during a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin ultimately opposed Tanden\u2019s nomination, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/19\/joe-manchin-against-joebiden-omb-nominee-neera-tanden\/\">arguing<\/a> that \u201cher overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/02\/white-house-joe-biden-withdraw-neera-tanden-nomination\/\">eventually accepted<\/a> Tanden\u2019s request to rescind her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Shalanda Young has served as acting director of OMB since March, when she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/03\/23\/young-confirmed-as-omb-deputy-director\/\">confirmed<\/a> as deputy director.<\/p>\n<p>Klain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/25\/ron-klain-neera-tanden-joy-reid-msnbc-senate-confirmation-hearings-omb-tweets\/\">promised<\/a> in February to find a position for Tanden in the Biden administration not requiring Senate confirmation if she could not get approval. She has been working as a senior advisor to Biden, a title she will keep, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/22\/neera-tanden-white-house-staff-516727\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neera Tanden was named White House staff secretary Friday, more than seven months after President Joe Biden withdrew her nomination to helm the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).Chief of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909536","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=909536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}