Neera Tanden will function director of the Domestic Policy Council, making her the highest home adviser to President Biden, the White House introduced Friday.

The transfer comes two years after Mr. Biden pulled her nomination to steer the Office of Management and Budget. She had come underneath fireplace throughout the affirmation course of for harsh tweets aimed toward lawmakers.

Heading the Domestic Policy Council shouldn't be a Senate-confirmed place, so Mr. Biden doesn’t have to fret about repeating what occurred in March 2021.

Ms. Tanden, the primary Asian American to go the council, will change Susan Rice, who's stepping down this month after two years within the place. Ms. Tanden is a senior adviser and employees secretary on the White House and has been a longtime fixture within the Democratic Party.

“She has 25 years of experience in public policy, has served three presidents and led one of the largest think tanks in the country for nearly a decade. She was a key architect of the Affordable Care Act and helped drive key domestic policies that became part of my agenda, including clean energy subsidies and sensible gun reform,” Mr. Biden stated in a press release, including that these experiences “will serve my administration and the American people well.”

In her new function, Ms. Tanden will likely be concerned in immigration, gun security, well being care and Mr. Biden’s scholar mortgage forgiveness plan.

Ms. Tanden had served as an aide to the Clintons, working as an affiliate director for home coverage to President Clinton and as an adviser to Hillary Clinton on home coverage when she was first woman and a senator from New York.

Ms. Tanden labored on Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns in addition to within the Obama administration the place she helped enact the Affordable Care Act.

Upon Mr. Biden’s election, he nominated Ms. Tanden to go the Office of Management and Budget solely to see the nomination go down in flames amid her social media posts.

In a collection of tweets, she in contrast Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, to Voldemort, stated a vampire “has more heart” than Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, and referred to as Sen. Susan Collins, Main Republican, “criminally ignorant.”

Ms. Tanden additionally took to Twitter to recommend that Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont unbiased, was helped by Russia throughout the 2016 marketing campaign.

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