The White House still has no plans to nominate an Office of Management and Budget director after Neera Tanden withdrew her name and as its first spending plan remains delayed.
Asked Monday if a permanent nominee would be announced soon, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters she does not expect a second nominee will be sent to the Senate any time soon.
The Biden administration has yet to complete and release any details of its fiscal 2020 budget blueprint.
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After vowing to ditch many of the norm-busting practices of the Trump administration, the Biden team’s spending plan performance most resembles that of its predecessor when it took office in early 2017.
The Trump administration released its first budget proposal on March 16 of that year.
The incoming Obama and George W. Bush administrations did so in late February.
Shalanda Young is the acting Office of Management and Budget director after the Senate confirmed the former senior congressional aide as the entity’s deputy director.
Young, as Psaki noted on Monday, is well respected by lawmakers in both parties — some GOP senators even urged the president to elevate her to the director’s post as Tanden’s nomination began to sink due to partisan social media posts and corporate donations to the liberal think tank she led.
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But the press secretary again made clear Biden is unlikely to do so, saying her boss nominated Young to be the office’s No. 2 for a reason.
Federal departments and agencies are in something of a holding pattern, as are the congressional appropriations and oversight committees, until the White House releases a full slate of spending proposals for the next fiscal year.
