Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tanden is an eminently qualified nominee who would be the first woman of colour to ever run the Office of Management and Budget. “In Neera Tanden, President-elect Biden has chosen an ideal partner to restore the American dream because she has lived it,” he added.
“Despite making it to the highest levels of government, she refused to forget where she came from, never backing down from the toughest battles to fight for the American worker. She was raised in an immigrant family that benefited from America's social safety net as a ladder to climb to the middle class, he said. Neil Makhija, the executive director of IMPACT, the leading Indian-American advocacy and political action committee, said that Tanden understands the power of the American Dream. Because of a government that saw my mother’s dignity, and gave her a chance,” Tanden said. is expected to nominate Neera Tanden, a divisive figure within the Democratic Party, to lead the budget office. I’m here today because of social programs.
“I’m here today thanks to my mother’s grit, but also thanks to a country that had faith in us, that invested in her humanity, and in our dreams. She got a job as a travel agent, and before long, she was able to buy us our own home in Bedford, Massachusetts, and see her children off to college, and beyond,” Tanden said. “This country gave her a fair shot to reach for the middle class and she made it work. We relied on the social safety net to get back on our feet,” she said. The New York Times Advertisement Washington Memo Neera Tanden: First Cabinet-Level Casualty of the Twitter Age Republicans have criticized her tweets, but Democrats say former President. Join Facebook to connect with Maya Tanden and others you may know. We relied on Section 8 vouchers to pay the rent. View the profiles of people named Maya Tanden. She stayed, and America came through for her when times were tough. “She faced a choice: return to India, where at the time divorce was stigmatized and opportunity would be limited, or keep fighting for her American Dream. But when I was five, my parents got divorced and my mom was left on her own with two children - and without a job,” said Tanden, who was born in Bedford, Massachusetts to immigrant parents from India. Amen Thompson and his twin brother, Ausar, sat side by side amid a swirl of tourists at Carmine’s restaurant in Times Square on. “I was raised in a suburb of Boston - a middle-class kid. Published JUpdated June 26, 2023, 7:06 p.m.
Like so many millions, across every generation, she came to America to pursue a better life,” said Tanden at the Biden Transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. “Like the Vice President-elect’s (Kamala Harris) mother, Shyamala, my mother, Maya, was born in India. Indian-American Neera Tanden, who has been nominated as the Director of Management and Budget by President-elect Joe Biden, on Tuesday shared the inspiring story of her mother who immigrated to the US from India.
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