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United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he is withdrawing his nomination of Indian-American Neera Tanden as his budget chief at her request, after she faced strong opposition from Republican and Democrat lawmakers for her past controversial tweets, Reuters reported.
Tanden’s withdrawal is the first case of a Biden Cabinet nominee failing to win Senate approval.
“I have accepted Neera Tanden’s request to withdraw her name from nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget,” Biden said in a short statement. He also said that he expected Tanden to land another role in his administration, according to CNBC. But the president did not identify what that job might be.
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A lack of centralized leadership, especially at the White House level, is hindering the federal government s ability to address numerous cybersecurity issues, such as the SolarWinds supply chain attack that affected federal agencies and others, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Since 2010, the GAO has made over 3,300 recommendations to improve cybersecurity standards and practices across the federal government, and as of December 2020, about 750 - including 100 that are considered priority recommendations - have not been implemented, according to the report published Tuesday.
The GAO says the 2018 National Cyber Strategy and the National Security Council s 2019 Implementation Plan, issued during the Trump administration, lacked important characteristics of a national strategy, which made these plans less effective in addressing pressing cybersecurity issues. The nation s cybersecurity stance has regressed over the last two years
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Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Kurt Schrader, and Suzanne Bonamici, are pushing the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to provide the Army Corps with annual funding for maritime infrastructure maintenance crucial to public safety and the vitality of economies up and down the Oregon Coast and throughout the Columbia River system.