“On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden announced that Neera Tanden was his pick to be the next Office of Management and Budget director.
“More than 18 hours prior, however, Republicans were already predicting that Tanden would never make it through the confirmation process.
“Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton referred to Tanden as a “partisan hack.”
“”Neera Tanden, who has an endless stream of disparaging comments about the Republican Senators’ whose votes she’ll need, stands zero chance of being confirmed,” tweeted Drew Brandewie, communications director for Texas Sen. John Cornyn.
“Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), described the Tanden pick as a “sacrifice to the confirmation gods.””
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