By Natalie Alms
Kiran Ahuja from her days as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
President Joe Biden will nominate former Obama administration official Kiran Ahuja to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Ahuja led the Biden transition team on OPM and she s an agency veteran. She served as OPM s chief of staff 2015 to 2017. She also served as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Obama White House. As part of that work, she led efforts to increase access to federal services for underserved communities of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Ahuja, who previously served as the agency’s chief of staff during the Obama administration, would be the first South Asian and the first Asian American.
taliban. and we re going to bring you more on this as soon as we get this information. we ll go to the white house and check in on this. right now there is new fallout from the disclosure of the scope of that data breach at a government agency which handles federal employee information. catherine archuleta, the agency that was hacked submitted her resignation friday afternoon. details of 21.5 million employees were stolen in that cyber attack. let s go to kristen welker and get to the latest on this report of the killing there of a leader of the islamic state. the latest on the administration s handling of this data breach. what do you know about that? administration taking a couple of steps for one president obama appointed beth cobert who was the deputy director at omb, to take over opm in the interim until president obama can appoint someone permanent. we know that the federal government is offering employees
you re watching cnn, i m brooke baldwin. the worst data breach in history has cost millions their privacy and has cost someone their job. katherine archuleta has stepped down. calls for her resignation has grown after the number of victims was actually 22 million. that is more than five times that original number reported. director archuleta did offer her resignation today. she did so of her own volition. she recognizes as the white house does the urgent challenges facing the office of personnel management require a manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences. that s precisely why the president accepted her resignation. the white house has named beth cobert as the interim