Biden Budget Chief Not Optimistic US Can Avoid Shutdown
- Shalanda Young calls writing bills before deadline ‘daunting’
- OMB chief cool to speaker’s call for direct talks with Biden
Shalanda Young
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President Joe Biden’s top budget official said she was concerned the US government will partially shut down this month with Congress and the White House deadlocked over border security and spending levels.
“I’m typically optimistic. Don’t mark me down as optimistic this morning,” Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said Friday at a breakfast in Washington hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.