Neera Tanden s Cabinet Nomination Withdrawal Cheered by Progressives and Conservatives
On 3/2/21 at 10:02 PM EST
Progressives and conservatives on Tuesday celebrated the White House pulling the nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Joe Biden.
Tanden s nomination was highly controversial, with members from both sides of the political aisle having called her a divisive figure from the beginning.
In a Tuesday statement, Biden confirmed that he accepted Tanden s request to withdraw her name from nomination for Director of the OMB. I have the utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience and her counsel, and I look forward to having her serve in a role in my Administration, he said.
Welcome to the first Essential Arts newsletter of the President Biden era. I’m Times arts writer Jessica Gelt, filling in for the indefatigable Carolina Miranda with a rundown of the week’s culture news the Bernie memes edition.
The Biden inauguration, with L.A. assists
The inauguration proceedings were a little surreal, what with the National Mall largely empty and the ceremony at the Capitol filled with ex-presidents in face coverings reminding us that we might have a new administration, but we’re still in the same old pandemic times.
Arts staffers here, like the rest of Twitter, were amused by the presence of the famously irascible