NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is nominating Shalanda Young to lead the White House budget office and Nani Coloretti to serve as Young’s deputy.
If confirmed by the Senate, Young would be the first Black woman to lead the Office of Management and Budget while Coloretti, who is Filipino American, would become one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the Biden administration.
It would be the first time that two women of color will lead the agency, which helps the president develop an annual budget and monitors how tax dollars are spent.
“Today it’s my honor to nominate two extraordinary, history-making women to lead the Office of Management and Budget,” Biden said in a video announcement released Wednesday while he spends the Thanksgiving holiday on Nantucket island in Massachusetts.
Young has served as acting director of the office for much of the year. Biden’s first nominee for the director’s position, Neera Tanden, faced bipartisan criticism for her previous attacks on lawmakers, and she ultimately withdrew from consideration.
Biden said Young has “continued to impress me” during her time as acting director.
She faces her own Senate confirmation vote, but she was initially confirmed for the acting director’s role in March with nearly two-thirds support and the backing of multiple Republicans. As the former staff director of the House Appropriations Committee, Young had the support of top Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi, in a statement issued Wednesday, said Young’s nomination is “well-deserved.”
Coloretti would join the administration from the Urban Institute think tank, where she is a senior vice president.
Biden said his nominees are “two of the most experienced, qualified people to lead” the budget office, and he called on the Senate to vote quickly to confirm them for the posts.
The head of the Office of Management and Budget is tasked with putting together the administration’s budget and overseeing a wide range of logistical and regulatory issues across the federal government.
Jaffe reported from Washington.
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She can’t balance a spread sheet or a profit and loss statement but her hair sure smells good. Our Federal Budget will soon be turned into a Feral Fudge it, but don’t take or ask any questions. Her credentials are obviously her talents for redistributing American wealth from the honest working American middle class to the Democrat party elite and the democrat voting poor. Cooking the books of THE PEOPLE will replace cooking a good meal for THE PEOPLE, and the words Government “Paid in Full” will not mean to pay off our creditors, but that Joe got his full 10%.
Qualifications.. WHAT qualifications.. DEY BE BLACK DAWG.. That’s all that matters…
The qualification for any Federal position in the democrat President, Joe Biden’s Administration are ‘ that this person be “Female, Of the Black Race , not a ( MALE White Man,) but anyone who identifys as a minority may be suitable to consider hiring by Biden. Sound a little bit “Racist” to me.
Yeah… but… if you apply the twisted thinking of the Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrats … a white man could get the position if he identifies AS a black woman… and riots in the streets for Black Lies Matter…. my God… he’d…her… it… would have more qualifications than anything in the entire universe.
affirmitave action alive and well in the mao biden administration
So AP tells us they were picked for their color and I know their gender played a role too just as both did for Kamala Harris.
Do these women of color have any education or experience to qualify them for these jobs? If so, why didn’t AP mention it in this article?
BECAUSE that doesn’t matter.. FOR Commucrats, it never does.
It is NOT a good thing to elect a president based on the color of his skin and completely ignore the content of his character or his qualifications. Obama was NOT judged on his vile, treasonous, immoral, lying, racist character. Obama was only judged by his race.
And we see again Obama’s vile, treasonous, immoral, lying, racist character in his puppet president Brandon Obiden.
Look how well they run every country in africa. Are the democrats trying to do the same thing here ???
In one word. YES.
I have to disagree … what they have in mind is a … Kajillion…. times worse. They have a “ethnic cleansing” of white people on the agenda. The white Mass’as in washington Sodom & Gomorrah are helping them do it, in exchange for their support and “useful idiots” positions. Then they keep power and wealth knowing full well they themselves will be long dead before the excrement hits the fan. Evil… just plain evil.
IF you look IN most of africa, they DID kick out/kill all the whites….
Keeping the Peter Principle alive.
Democrat politicians own a lot of the black voters and it’s a shame the black voters are allowing themselves to be fooled on a continual basis. America will wake up, but will it be too late?
IN some ways i fear, it may already BE too late…