Neera Tanden will join the Biden administration as a senior adviser to the president more than two months after she withdrew as President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of Budget and Management.
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In the new role, the health policy expert will help mitigate the ramifications of a potential Supreme Court strike down of the Affordable Care Act and an investigation of the U.S. Digital Service, a White House official told CNN.
“Neera’s intellect, tenacity, and political savvy will be an asset to the Biden administration as she assumes a new role as senior adviser to the president,” said John Podesta, founder and director of the Center for American Progress.
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Tanden, who is the president of the liberal Center for American Progress and a former Obama administration official, withdrew her nomination to be OMB chief in March after meeting resistance in the evenly divided Senate, particularly over Twitter attacks targeting everyone from onetime Democratic Party presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, alienating key votes needed to confirm her to the role.
Shalanda Young, who was confirmed in March as OMB deputy director, is concurrently serving as acting chief until a permanent nominee is approved.
