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White House To Withdraw Neera Tanden As Budget Director Nominee
1 month ago | By The Huffington Post
President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget was in danger of not being confirmed by the Senate.
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Neera Tanden Removes Herself From Consideration As Budget Chief
1 month ago | By CBS
Neera Tanden, President Biden's choice to lead the powerful Office of Budget and Management, has removed herself from consideration as the nominee, the White House said Tuesday. Tanden sent a letter to Mr. Biden explaining her decision.
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Biden Drops Tanden Nomination Amid Bipartisan Opposition
1 month ago | By NY Times
The White House had insisted that it would stand by Neera Tanden as President Biden's top budget official, but it became clear that she did not have the Senate votes to be confirmed.
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White House pulls Neera Tanden nomination to lead OMB after storm over tweets
1 month ago | By New York Post
The White House on Tuesday said that it was withdrawing Neera Tanden's nomination to be White House budget director. President Biden presented the withdrawal as Tanden's idea and the White House released a letter from her saying she wanted to drop out. Tanden faced increasingly long odds at confirmation due to her past mean tweets...
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Summary List Placement Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has long embraced skepticism about science on issues from climate change to COVID-19. On Thursday, the Wisconsin conservative... Read more ...
Only One Senator Voted No on Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill
The Senate is usually split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, but in a rare moment of bipartisanship Thursday, it was split between Sen. Josh Hawley and everybody else... Read more ...
Russian's Navalny to end prison hunger strike on 24th day
MOSCOW - Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it... Read more ...
California public universities plan to require Covid-19 vaccines
SACRAMENTO - California's two public university systems announced Thursday they will require nearly 800,000 students to receive the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as this fall in the... Read more ...
HUD scraps Trump proposal on transgender access to single-sex homeless shelters
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is withdrawing a Trump-era proposed rule giving federally funded single-sex homeless shelters the choice to house only people... Read more ...
Sen. Tim Scott will deliver the GOP response to Biden's speech before a...
Summary List Placement South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott will deliver the GOP response to President Joe Biden's speech before Congress on April 28. Biden is planning to make his... Read more ...
Senate passes anti-Asian American hate crime bill
The Senate on Thursday passed an anti-hate crimes bill aimed at addressing a surge in attacks on Asian Americans amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The measure, which would create a... Read more ...
Republicans roll out $568 billion infrastructure package that Dems have...
Senate Republicans released a $568 billion infrastructure framework on Thursday intended as a counteroffer to President Joe Biden's infrastructure proposal, a plan about a... Read more ...
9-0 Supreme Court ruling guts FTC's ability to seek redress for consumers
The Federal Trade Commission can't force companies that engage in wrongdoing to pay back consumers or give up ill-gotten profit, the Supreme Court held Thursday, dealing a huge... Read more ...
Pentagon investigated suspected Russian directed-energy attacks on U.S. troops
The Pentagon has briefed top lawmakers on intelligence surrounding suspected directed-energy attacks against U.S. troops, and officials identified Russia as a likely culprit... Read more ...