Sign the petition: Confirm Biden nominee Neera Tanden

People are hurting and suffering right now. We need direct relief. We need a Director of OMB. People are hurting and suffering right now. We need direct relief. We need a Director of OMB.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

U.S senators who enabled and voted to confirm Trump's crony Cabinet members must stop being hypocrites by holding up the nomination of Neera Tanden, a qualified expert, to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It is critical that she be confirmed for this Cabinet seat as Democrats work hard to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that hurting Americans so desperately need right now.

Sign now: Tell the U.S. Senate to confirm qualified Biden nominee Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget!

The confirmation of Neera Tanden, a daughter of immigrants from India, as director of the OMB would be historic. If confirmed, she would shatter glass ceilings as the first Asian American and first woman of color to hold this position. 

Many senators claim they are coming out against Tanden's nomination because of … tweets. Which is especially hypocritical considering the leader of their party was kicked off of nearly every social media platform for inciting a deadly insurrection led by white supremacists … on Twitter. When you look at whom these Republicans and conservative Democrats have confirmed in the past, you understand their objection to Tanden isn't just her tone.

These same hypocritical senators voted, even after hearing Christine Blasey Ford's heart-breaking testimony, to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, a sexual predator, to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court. Many voted to acquit Trump after he incited a deadly insurrection led by white supremacists. They supported, upheld, and enabled Trump and white supremacy for four years in spite of the hateful, racist, misogynistic, and disgusting things he said and did. They must stop the political theater and confirm Neera Tanden as director of the OMB NOW.

Let's be blunt: Nominees of color, especially nominees who are women of color, are facing a much harder confirmation process right now. Unsurprisingly, white male Cabinet nominees are going through just fine, but women of color like Deb Haaland, a Native woman, and Neera Tanden, an Asian American woman, are facing unnecessary roadblocks—as is Xavier Becerra, who would be the first Latino man to lead Health and Human Services. They need to stop moving the goal post for these qualified nominees of color—and especially for women of color—and confirm them.

People are hurting and suffering right now. We need direct relief. We need a director of OMB. Hypocritical senators must stop holding up a qualified, leading expert's nomination and confirm Neera Tanden as the next director of the OMB.

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Thanks!

–Claudette Williams

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