What gives?

The Biden administration has been trying to get Neera Tanden a position since the beginning.  What does she have on whom?

Neera Tanden will become the White House staff secretary, a White House official confirmed on Friday, meaning she will assume a central role that involves managing the flow of paper to President Biden and among senior officials.

The position is not one that requires Senate confirmation.

  

And that's good for her, because she might not get it.

Tanden was Biden’s first choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget but assumed a role as a White House senior adviser instead after she hit serious roadblocks in her confirmation process.

Republicans angered over her political tweets during her years leading the Center for American Progress blocked her nomination, and the White House could not secure 50 Senate Democrats to back her.

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Biden has yet to select a new nominee for OMB director, a position that Shalanda Young has held in an acting capacity for several months.

Perhaps another reason the Republicans didn't like her...

Tanden is a longtime adviser to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Here's why I don't like her:


And there's this.  And that email to John Podesta about Hillary, for whom she worked.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.