Episode 1308
Neera Tanden
Tue, 2020-Dec-01 01:59 UTC
Length - 2:11
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With 209,859 views on Monday, 30 November 2020 our article of the day is Neera Tanden.
Neera Tanden (born 1970) is an American political consultant and former government official. She is president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D. C., where she has served in different capacities since 2003.
Tanden has worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Barack Obama in 2008. Tanden advised Hillary Clinton's successful 2016 primary campaign and unsuccessful 2016 general election campaign. She was also a senior staffer on Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination. During the Obama administration, Tanden helped draft the Affordable Care Act.
On November 29, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Tanden as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, subject to Senate approval.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:59 UTC on Tuesday, 1 December 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Neera Tanden on Wikipedia.
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