Republicans vow to block Biden budget pick over her 'disparaging' comments about senators

One of Joe Biden’s reported appointees is already facing opposition from Republicans for her outspoken and often harsh comments about the right on social media.

Neera Tanden, who has been active in centrist Democratic Party politics for decades, is expected to be nominated by Mr Biden to run the Office of Management and Budget. A longtime loyalist of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ms Tanden is well-known for her engagement with adversaries on Twitter, where she is extremely prolific.

Ms Tanden has yet to tweet about the reports Mr Biden has chosen her — but some Republican operatives are already declaring that she should consider her nomination a non-starter.

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Ms Tanden has lately hit out at Republican senators over their move to confirm Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett in an election year, despite their refusal to do the same in 2016. In a statement at the time, she wrote that the nomination had changed the Supreme Court into “an arm of the Republican agenda”, and that “Mitch McConnell has broken the Senate, he has broken the Supreme Court, and in conjunction with president Donald Trump, he has broken our democracy.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-vow-block-biden-budget-162749551.html

Guess the truth hurts.