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Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday evening. In a statement, Tanden wrote: Dear President Biden, I am writing to you to withdraw my nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It has been an honor of a lifetime to be considered for this […]
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Neera Tanden Withdraws from OMB Nomination, Biden’s First Defeat
March 3rd, 2021 
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No Comments »Brooks: ‘Unconscious Undertone’ to Tanden Opposition Is That OMB Director Is Usually a White Male
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that part of the “unconscious undertone” to the opposition to Neera Tanden’s nomination as OMB Director is that the OMB Director is usually “a super wonky, dry personality, white male.” Brooks said, “Republicans have had a come-to-Jesus moment where incivility is completely offensive to them all […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: brooks, director, opposition, tanden, unconscious, undertone, usually No Comments »Neera Tanden Got Twitter Right—And That Was Her Problem
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy But Twitter has its own way of tempting you into provocative tweets, and then turning on you—especially when you make enough enemies from different points on the political spectrum, and they find a common moment for revenge. A onetime Boston political boss named Martin Lomasney, who wielded power in the late 19th and early 20th […]
CNN’s Lemon: GOP Hypocrisy on Tanden’s Mean Tweets ‘Is Off the Charts,’ They Put Up with Trump
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy CNN anchor Don Lemon said Wednesday on his show “Tonight” that Republican Senators who are balking over President Joe Biden’s nomination for Office of Management and Budget director Neera Tanden’s mean tweets are being hypocritical because they did not criticize former President Donald Trump for his tweets. Lemon said, “The hypocrisy of the Republican Party is off […]
A possible Tanden replacement privately touts her own Senate support
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Privately, too, O’Leary has reiterated her belief that the White House could and should still muster the votes needed for Tanden’s confirmation—noting that Tanden is qualified for the job and that her friends and allies should come to her side and not back down from defending her. It’s a message that synced with administration officials […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: possible, privately, replacement, Senate, support, tanden, touts No Comments »Manchin to oppose Tanden for OMB, imperiling major Biden nomination
February 20th, 2021 Awake Goy “I believe her 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,” Manchin said. “For this reason, I cannot support her nomination. As I have said before, we must take meaningful steps to end […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biden, imperiling, Major, manchin, nomination, oppose, tanden No Comments »Watch: Biden OMB Nominee Neera Tanden Grilled for Taking Millions from Wall Street, Big Tech
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Neera Tanden, was grilled by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for her financial ties to Wall Street firms and tech corporations. Tanden, currently the CEO of the left-wing Center for American Progress and a longtime ally of failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, […]
‘Vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz’: Tanden atones for past tweets
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) read aloud some of Tanden’s tweets, including her criticism of Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I’m concerned that your personal attacks about specific senators will make it more difficult for you to work with them,” Portman […]
Tanden slated for confirmation grilling next week
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Republicans have previously labeled Tanden as “radioactive” for her open criticism of the GOP on social media. But Democrats, who praise Tanden for a career of advocacy and support for government assistance to help families, have called Republicans hypocrites for rebuking Tanden while remaining silent as President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized his own party on […]
Biden’s Pick Neera Tanden Wants Social Security Cuts
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/30/citing-past-calls-social-security-cuts-progressives-not-pleased-biden-pick-neeraReports late Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate NeeraTanden, head of the corporate-backed think tank Center for American Progress, to lead his budget office drew an icy reception from progressives, who pointed to the Democratic operative’s history of attacking policies such as Medicare for All and voicing support for SocialSecurity cuts.
After Tanden’s thinktank got millions from UAE, it went easy on Yemen slaughter and MBS
December 8th, 2020 Awake Goy Neera Tanden’s nomination for a post in Joe Biden’s Cabinet is in trouble — and part of her problem is the financial ties between the liberal think tank she ran and the United Arab Emirates, the undemocratic Gulf oil sheikdom. Tanden has headed the influential Center for American Progress for the past 9 years. The […]
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
December 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy Reports emerged over the weekend that Biden planned to nominate Tanden, a former senior policy adviser to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The president-elect introduced Tanden as his OMB director-designate at an event on Tuesday in Delaware. Since her initial announcement, Senate Republicans […]
Tanden nomination is reminder of Democrats’ resistance to Iran deal, Palestinian human rights
December 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy Joe Biden has nominated Neera Tanden to be director of OMB, and Tanden is an experienced political operator with critics on the right and the left. A former aide to Hillary Clinton, Tanden heads an official Democratic Party thinktank, the Center for American Progress, and famously battled the Sanders wing of the party. Last night […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Democrats, human, nomination, palestinian, reminder, Resistance, tanden No Comments »Report: Joe Biden to Name Neera Tanden, Head of Soros-Funded Center for American Progress, to OMB
November 30th, 2020 Awake Goy Former Vice President Joe Biden intends to name Neera Tanden, head of the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), as the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, presuming he takes office as president. Tanden leads the George Soros-backed organization, which also provided staff and policies to the Obama administration. […]
Pocketbook Pain: The Rapidly Rising Cost Of Living Is Absolutely Killing The Middle Class In America
November 10th, 2015 Awake Goy All over America, the middle class is dying and poverty is on the rise. One of the primary reasons for this is the rapidly rising cost of living in the United States. The cost of just about everything that average families shell out money for on a regular basis – food, rent, health insurance, etc. […]
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