Joe Biden appoints Indian-American Neera Tanden as Director of Office of Management and Budget

Washington DC, December 01: While announcing the key members of his economic team, newly elected US POTUS Joe Biden on Monday appointed Indian-American Neera Tanden as Director of Office of Management and Budget in the Biden administration.

 

In a statement, Biden said he would nominate Janet Yellen, the former Federal Reserve chair, to lead the Treasury Department, and former Clinton and Obama adviser Neera Tanden to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

 

If confirmed by the Senate, then the 50-year-old Tanden would be the first India American woman of colour to head the influential office at the White House.

 

 

 

Tanden's career has focused on pursuing policies designed to support working families, foster broad-based economic growth, and curb rampant inequality.

 

Tanden is the president and CEO of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, has been tapped to serve as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. She was the director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, but she first made her mark in the Clinton orbit.

 

She served as policy director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Before that, she served as a legislative director in Clinton’s Senate office and deputy campaign manager and issues director for Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. Tanden was a senior policy adviser in the Bill Clinton administration.

 

Apart from this she also worked as a senior adviser to the Health and Human Services Department in former President Barack Obama's administration, helping craft his affordable healthcare law and programme.

 

Apart from her Biden also nominates former Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen, as treasury secretary. He also unveiled his White House economic team, consisting of economists Cecilia Rouse, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey.

 

This crisis-tested team will help the Biden administration lift America out of the current downturn and create an economy that gives every single person across America a fair shot and an equal chance to get ahead, the transition said.

 

This announcement came a day after Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced their all-female communications team.US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed an all-women White House communications team. He has chosen former Barack Obama administration's State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary. Psaki currently oversees the confirmation team for the Biden-Harris Transition. During the Obama-Biden administration, Psaki held several senior roles, including White House Communications Director and State Department Spokesperson under then-Secretary of State John Kerry