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Biden Vowed to Restore Standards. It Won’t Be Easy.
Nominating partisan warriors may backfire on the new adminstration.
Neera Tanden is only the first test of the “what about Trump?” standard.
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Of all the nominees President-elect Joe Biden has so far put forward, Neera Tanden is the one most likely to lose a confirmation battle.
She has harshly attacked some Republican senators whose votes she may now need to become the head of the Office of Management and Budget. After the Senate voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, she issued a press release accusing Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican, of “offering a pathetically bad faith argument as cover for President Trump’s vicious attacks on survivors of sexual assault.”