Neera Tanden - Biden’s pick to head The Office Of Management And Budget - might not get confirmed after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin expressed his opposition to voting for her.

Manchin said that he has reviewed Tanden's previous Tweets criticizing his colleagues, including Senate Budget Committee chair Bernie Sanders and Senate Minority leader Mitch McConell.

“I believe her overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget," the Senator from West Virgina said, speaking to Politico. "For this reason, I cannot support her nomination. As I have said before, we must take meaningful steps to end the political division and dysfunction that pervades our politics.”

Biden is not giving up yet and does not plan to pull Tanden's nomination. But getting her confirmed is a heavy lift since there’s no room for error and a Republican has to vote to confirm her.

Moreover, Senator Susan Collins also spoke out, saying that she will not vote to confirm Tanden to lead the OMB. Speaking to Politico she said, “Congress has to be able to trust the OMB director to make countless decisions in an impartial manner, carrying out the letter of the law and congressional intent. Neera Tanden has neither the experience nor the temperament to lead this critical agency. Her past actions have demonstrated exactly the kind of animosity that President Biden has pledged to transcend.”

There are others. Senator Mitt Romney also spoke out against Tanden's confirmation. "Sen. Romney has been critical of extreme rhetoric from prior nominees, and this is consistent with that position. And he believes it’s hard to return to comity and respect with a nominee who has issued a thousand mean tweets," a spokesperson for the Senator said, speaking to NBC News.

Ana Kasparian said this was welcome news. "I dont agree with their reasoning, but Neera Tanden is the worst possible person to serve in that role," she said. "Neera Tanden is as bad as it gets. She has all the wrong incentives as someone who is going to be in this powerful role."

But Cenk Uygur disagrees, saying Tanden's confirmation is important to set a precedent. "As Manchin and other Senators pretend that they’re outraged for civility reasons after backing Bill Barr, and they pretend they're worried about corporate interests when they stack up corporate donations, they are total and utter liars," he says. "But most importantly, if you back down from this, it’s a terrible precedent."

Kasparian disagrees, saying that Neera Tanden has been in bed with massive corporations. She cites a 2013 report by The Nation detailing her corporate allies.

"After growing rapidly in its first few years, tax records show, CAP’s total assets fell in 2006 for the first time, from $23.6 million to $20.4 million. Assets started growing again in 2007 when CAP founded the Business Alliance, a membership rewards program for corporate contributors, and then exploded when Obama was elected in 2008," the report reads. A confidential CAP donor pitch...describes the Business Alliance as "a channel for engagement with the corporate community" that provides "the opportunity to collaborate on common interests." It offers three membership levels, with the perks to top donors ($100,000 and up) including private meetings with CAP experts and executives, round-table discussions with “Hill and national leaders,” and briefings on CAP reports “relevant to your unique interests.”

The report further identifies Comcast, Walmart, General Motors, Pacific Gas and Electric, General Electric, Boeing and Lockheed as CAP's donors.

Bernie Sanders recently called on the OMB to release analysis and data showing that increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would have an impact on the federal budget, Kasparian explains. If confirmed, Tanden, would exploit such an important office to serve corporate interests, she says.

While she acknowledges that Tanden's previous tweets are a "dumb" reason not to confirm her, Kasparian says, "at the end of the day if the outcome is something positive which is preventing the confirmation of someone like Neera Tanden in the OMB, then I am all for it."

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