President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget has a history of defending British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump dossier.

Years of controversial claims about the Trump-Russia controversy, particularly about the dossier funded in part by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, presents one of several obstacles for Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic operative, to achieve Senate confirmation next year.

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