Indian-American Neera Tanden to serve as senior adviser to Biden ANI | Updated: May 15, 2021 03:09 IST
Washington [US], May 15 (ANI): The Biden administration has announced that Indian-American Neera Tanden, who had withdrawn her nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) amid bipartisan criticism, will now join the White House as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden.
In a statement, John Podesta, the founder of Center for American Progress (CAP) said: Neera s intellect, tenacity, and political savvy will be an asset to the Biden administration as she assumes a new role as senior adviser to the president. While we will be sorry to lose her considerable policy expertise and leadership at the Center for American Progress an organization which we founded together in 2003 I am exceptionally thrilled to see her step into a new position serving this White House and the American people.
STATEMENT: CAP Founder John Podesta on Appointment of Neera Tanden as Senior Adviser to the President
Date: May 14, 2021
Contact: Jesse Lee
Washington, D.C. Today, the Biden administration announced that CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden has been appointed as senior adviser to President Joe Biden. John Podesta, founder and director of CAP, released the following statement:
Neera’s intellect, tenacity, and political savvy will be an asset to the Biden administration as she assumes a new role as senior adviser to the president. While we will be sorry to lose her considerable policy expertise and leadership at the Center for American Progress an organization which we founded together in 2003 I am exceptionally thrilled to see her step into a new position serving this White House and the American people.
Ron Klain was on the board of Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund
The progressive think tank is dark money , meaning its donors are not declared
Around 60 people with ties to CAP have joined the White House team
Several other dark money groups are known to have insider influence
They include Media Matters for America and the Environmental Defense Fund
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We’re back to this crap again. Sorry, but how many presidencies do we have to go through to discover that this is simply a unicorn in American politics. Both parties are guilty of this in the grand crusade to build the permanent political majority or the durable majority. I’m pretty sure the Obama folks thought his coalition would be durable. Trump smashed it in 2016. George W. Bush’s group thought a national security umbrella could create a durable majority post-9/11. That was eviscerated in the 2006 midterms. As so many have noted, like Real Clear Politics’ Sean Trende, there are many ways to skin the electoral cat. Before George Will left the Republican Party over Trump, he aptly noted that public opinion is shiftable sand, therefore, there are no permanent victories in American politics. Why should we think it’s any different regarding voters?
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He s a liberal, but he’s not insane. He’s colorful as hell yes but he isn’t ‘woke.’ In fact, that’s the slice of the party he knows is a problem and admits a lot of Democrats agree with that diagnosis. James Carville is a former Clinton operative behind the 42
nd president of the United States’ 1992 shellacking of George H.W. Bush.
“It’s the economy, stupid.” You all know the slogans, but Carville also has been adamant that his party has well gone off the hinges. During the 2020 election, he noted that the party was peddling just asinine ideas like free college tuition and debt forgiveness. He might not be against the idea, but he knows it’s not a winning message at all. He sat down with Vox last February to air his grievances with the party.