Biden to Pull Neera Tanden’s Nomination

Tanden's "mean tweets" doomed her with Joe Manchin. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images The White House is planning to withdraw the nomination of Neera Tanden for the position of director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to multiple media reports. Tanden's confirmation had run into trouble after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced he would oppose her on grounds that her history of abrasive social media comments would affect her ability to work with people on both sides of the aisle in Congress. The decision to pull the nomination likely indicates that efforts to bring a Republican senator –most recent reports have suggested Lisa Murkowski as the top target – into supporting Tanden to offset the Manchin defection have gone for nought. Speculation on a possible substitute for Tanden has been well under way for a while, with some Democrats touting former Hillary Clinton advisor (and more problematically, Gavin Newsom chief of staff) Ann O'Leary , while progressives began to coalesce around Clinton-Obama economic advisor Gene Sperling . The path of least resistance for Team Biden, though, may well be to promote their nominee for deputy OMB director, House Appropriations Committee staff director Shalanda Young, who has been… Read full this story

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