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Its will be pride moment for Indians in America as Neera Tanden will join White House as senior advisor.
Tanden has been entrusted with two tasks to launch a review of the US Digital Service, and plan contingencies that could result from the Supreme Court’s consideration of Republican lawsuits seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
An Indian-American, Tanden, 50, has been appointed senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, two months after she withdrew her nomination as Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget due to stiff opposition from Republican senators. She slated to join the White House on Monday.
Tanden is currently the president and CEO of a progressive think-tank, Center for American Progress (CAP).
Tanden holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a law degree from the Yale Law School.
Tanden has worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Barack Obama in 2008.
She was a senior staffer to Hillary Clinton during her 2000 election to a United States Senate seat in New York, and during Clinton’s tenure as a Senator.
Tanden advised Clinton during her run for the 2008 Democratic nomination, and later helped her defeat Bernie Sanders to win the nomination in 2016, and run against Donald Trump in the 2016 general election.
In her government service with the Obama administration, Tanden helped draft the Affordable Care Act.
“Neera’s intellect, tenacity, and political savvy will be an asset to the new administration,” CAP founder and director John Podesta said.
Tanden was also the director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, where she managed all domestic policy proposals.
She began her career as an associate director for domestic policy in former President Bill Clinton’s White House, and senior policy adviser to the First Lady.
