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Republicans scoff at Biden’s choice to run the White House budget office.
By Carl Hulse and
Early Republican resistance to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s pick to run the White House budget office signaled trouble ahead for the incoming administration, which will face deep partisan divisions on Capitol Hill.
Mr. Biden chose Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic policy adviser known for her somewhat hostile Twitter presence, to lead the office. And his advisers said Mr. Biden was cleareyed about the need to use some of his political capital to fight for her nomination.
Even though many Republicans have refused to recognize Mr. Biden as the winner of the election, they said they were surprised that his team had not checked with them on how they might react to Ms. Tanden’s nomination to an agency that lawmakers in both parties see as critical when it comes to advancing congressional priorities.
In the 11 years since Mr. Biden last served in the Senate, partisanship in the chamber has intensified, and nominations — once an area dominated by courtesy, comity and a presumption of accommodation — have become just another brutal battlefield.
Republican reaction to Mr. Biden’s other nominees has been more muted, and some Republicans suggested they would be willing to give the president-elect deference on his cabinet picks. One person close to the nomination process said that Mr. Biden and his team had, in fact, been reaching out to Republican lawmakers in recent weeks.
Mr. Biden will not need much help from Republicans if Democrats win two Senate seats in January runoffs in Georgia, which would give the party effective control of the Senate. Otherwise, Republicans will have the power to decide the fate of Mr. Biden’s executive and judicial branch picks.
Democrats scoffed at the criticisms surrounding Ms. Tanden’s selection, particularly over her Twitter feed, given that most Senate Republicans have diligently spent four years evading queries about the endless provocations and inflammatory attacks on their own colleagues from President Trump on Twitter.
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