Washington:
Indian-American Neera Tanden is a brilliant policy thoughts with important sensible practical experience across governments, President-elect Joe Biden has mentioned soon after he formally announced her nomination as the Director of Office of Management and Budget at the White House.
Ms Tanden, 50, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the very first lady of colour and very first Indian-American to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch.
Specifically, the OMB’s mission is to help the President in meeting his policy, spending budget, management and regulatory objectives and to fulfill the agency’s statutory responsibilities.
Ms Tanden’s profession has focused on pursuing policies developed to help operating households, foster broad-primarily based financial development, and curb inequality.
“For Director of the Office and Management and Budget, I nominate Neera Tanden. I’ve known Neera for a long time. A brilliant policy mind with critical practical experience across government,” Mr Biden mentioned at the Transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday.
“She was raised by a single mom on food stamps, an immigrant from India who struggled, worked hard, and did everything she could for her daughter to live out her American dream. And Neera did just that. She understands the struggles that millions of Americans are facing,” he mentioned.
Mr Biden mentioned Tanden will be the very first lady of colour and very first South Asian American to lead the OMB.
“She will be in charge of laying out my budget that will help us control the virus, deal with the economic crisis, and build back better. But above all, she believes what I believe – a budget should reflect our values,” he mentioned.
In her remarks, Ms Tanden mentioned it is her honour to assist shape budgets and programmes to retain lifting Americans up, to pull households back from the brink, “to give everybody the fair chance my mother got, and that everyone deserves”.
“I believe so strongly that our government is meant to serve all the American people – Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike, all of whom deserve to know that their government has their back,” she mentioned.