Did Neera Tanden have a foreign-policy role in the Obama administration?
Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to direct the White House's Office of Management and Budget, served as an advisor to the Health and Human Services Department in the Obama administration. That followed a domestic-policy role in the Clinton White House, then roles advising Hillary Clinton from her time as first lady through the Senate and on to her 2008 presidential campaign.
Since being named as the potential OMB head, discussion about Tanden's policy record and expertise has been overshadowed by reactions to her social-media posts on a variety of subjects not directly related to her professional responsibilities, including tweets in support of NATO's invasion of Libya in 2011. "It isn't her resume that's generating the heat--it's the fight she's waged on Twitter and elsewhere," an NPR reporter said.
