Manchin Opposes Biden’s Office of Management and Budget Director Nominee

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) said on Feb. 19 that he will oppose the confirmation Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, due to her partisan statements aimed at lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. “I have carefully reviewed Neera Tanden’s public statements and tweets that were personally directed towards my colleagues on both sides of the aisle from Senator Sanders to Senator McConnell and others. I believe her overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget,” Manchin said in a statement. “For this reason, I cannot support her nomination. As I have said before, we must take meaningful steps to end the political division and dysfunction that pervades our politics. At a time of grave crisis, it is more important … Read More