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Neera Tanden

Neera Tanden President of Center for American Progress (CAP) (link)
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American
Born:

September 10, 1970
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Domestic policy adviser, Biden Administration

Former President, Center for American Progress (CAP)

Biden Administration

Neera Tanden is a long-time confidante of the Clinton political family and a former Obama administration aide who served as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-of-center think tank cofounded by Democratic Party fixer John Podesta, from 2011 t0 2021.

Neera Tanden was born in Bedford, Massachusetts to immigrant parents from India. At the age of 5, her parents divorced, leaving her mother to raise Tanden and her brother alone. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), followed by a law degree from Yale. While at UCLA, she met her now husband, an artist named Ben Edwards, while she was involved with the presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis. She and her husband have two children.1

Early Career

After Tanden joined then-President Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996, she served as a White House aide to President Clinton and as a top staffer in Hillary Clinton’s Senate office. She later served as policy director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign.2 Following Hillary’s 2008 Democratic primary defeat, Tanden worked as director of domestic policy for the Obama campaign and was reportedly the highest-ranking person on the Clinton’s campaign to go to the Obama administration. 3 In the administration she worked as a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and was credited as a “key architect” of Obamacare. 4

In November 2011, Tanden left the Obama administration and took over as President of the Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank. 5 Under Tanden, CAP has pushed a number of liberal prerogatives, including tax increases, legal status for large groups of illegal immigrants, controversial environmentalist policies.6

In 2016, Tanden was an informal adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign7 and was named one of one of four co-chairs for the abortive Clinton transition team.8 As a result, CAP was labeled “Hillary Clinton’s government-in-waiting.” 9 In October 2016, Tanden said, “I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier.”10

After Clinton was defeated by Republican candidate Donald Trump, Tanden committed the Center for American Progress’ resources to rapidly and forcefully “resisting” the new administration.11

Ties to the Clinton Family

Neera Tanden’s career has largely been defined by her relationship with the Clinton political family.12

Politico has described Tanden as a “longtime Clinton confidante,”13 while Vox labeled her “one of the more liberal members of Clintonland.”14 Tanden, Politico wrote, “has spent the better part of two decades at Clinton’s side — first as a White House aide, then as a top staffer in her Senate office, later as policy director of the 2008 campaign.” 15 In fact, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton threw Tanden a wedding shower at the White House. 16

In October 2016, Tanden said, “I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier.”17

Following her time in the Clinton White House, Tanden worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign as a deputy campaign manager and issues director before working as a legislative director in her Washington, D.C. office.18 During Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign, Tanden served as Hillary’s policy director during the Democratic primaries. 19

Obama Administration

Following Hillary’s 2008 Democratic primary defeat, Tanden joined the Obama-Biden campaign as its director of domestic policy. 20 Tanden claims that she was the highest-ranking person on the Hillary campaign to serve in the Obama administration.21

She was a senior adviser for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services22 and has been described as a “key architect” of Obamacare. 23

Post-Obama Activism

The Center for American Progress

In November 2011,24 Tanden left the Barack Obama administration and replaced John Podesta, formerly White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton and later Counselor to the President in the Obama White House and chair of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, as president and CEO of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress.25 In 2015, Tanden also took over control of the Center’s lobbying arm, the Center for American Progress Action Fund.26

She also later claimed that her goal was to shift the national political conversation in a liberal direction.27 As she put it, “our goal has always been to have a pan-progressive tent.”28

Under Tanden, the CAP and its action fund have supported a number of left-wing policies. In 2012, the Center proposed a $1.8 trillion tax increase plan that included a tax rate hike, called for government-funded preschool months before President Obama included the same demand in his 2013 State of the Union address, and has fought for legalization of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.29

Tanden also took credit for encouraging President Barack Obama to implement various liberal policies on immigration, energy and the environment, and labor mandates through presidential executive order instead of congressional legislation. She later said President Obama did “most of what we [CAP] asked.”30

Tanden stepped down as  president and CEO of CAP in June 2021, and was replaced by Patrick Gaspard, the former head of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. 31

2016 Presidential Campaign

Tanden was an informal adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, providing political advice in a private capacity while her think tank provided intellectual backing and advocacy support to the Clinton campaign’s policy efforts.3233

Due to both Tanden and Podesta’s large roles with the Clinton campaign, the Washington Post wrote that the Center For American progress, “is poised to exert outsized influence over the 2016 president race and — should Hillary Clinton win it — the policies and agenda of the 45th President of the United States.” 34

Similarly, after Tanden was named one of one of four co-chairs for the Clinton transition team Politico wrote the Center For American Progress was “Hillary Clinton’s government-in-waiting.” The article noted that through this organization Tanden would be able to serve Clinton’s interests once again as a powerful outside adviser who would play a central role in a Presidential transition.35

Biden Administration

Tanden has held several positions in the White House under the Biden Administration.

Failed Nomination as OMB Director

In November 2020, President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Tanden to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). During her confirmation hearing on February 9, 2021, Tanden was questioned by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) over her past tweets directed at Republican Senators. Tanden apologized for her rhetoric on social media, claiming that while her role at CAP was to be an “impassioned advocate” she had come to regret the language she used in some tweets. 36 Tanden was also questioned by Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley over CAP’s donors, which include foreign nations and big business entities. The organization received $665,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, $1 million from the managing partner of Bain Capital, and $2.5 million dollars from the United Arab Emirates. Tanden denied any potential conflict of interest, saying that she was “proud of the record of the Center for American Progress and policies that would limit the power of Wall Street and limit the power of tech companies.” 37

Tanden’s nomination was also opposed by many far-left activists. According to Politico, Tanden’s nomination was viewed with disdain by supporters of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who believed that Tanden was “one of the Democratic elites who helped sink his 2016 campaign behind the scenes, not to mention a union-buster, a threat to Social Security, a hippie-puncher who constantly picks fights with the left, and much more.” 38 Briahna Joy Gray, former press secretary for Sander’s presidential campaign, told reporters “We’re talking about a woman who’s notorious for assaulting Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager.”

Tanden’s nomination was also opposed by moderate Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) who believed that Tanden’s past “overtly partisan statements” would impact her ability to work with members of Congress she had openly criticized in the past. 39 Manchin stated that he would vote against Tanden’s nomination.

Tanden withdrew her name from consideration for the post in March 2021. 40

White House staff secretary

In October 2021, eight months after her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget was withdrawn, Tanden was named White House staff secretary, while also retaining her role as senior adviser to President Biden. The Whitehouse informed reporters that “The Staff Secretary role is the central nervous system of the White House and moves the decision-making process and manages a wide variety of issues for the President.” 41 In 2023, White House aides reportedly told the New York Times that, while working as staff secretary “Ms. Tanden’s influence inside the West Wing has grown, even as the number of her public appearances shrank considerably.” 42

Domestic Policy Adviser

May 2023, the Whitehouse announced that Tanden would serve as President Biden’s domestic policy adviser. Tanden replaced former adviser Susan Rice who had recently vacated the post. President Biden told reporters that “Neera Tanden will continue to drive the formulation and implementation of my domestic policy, from economic mobility and racial equity to health care, immigration and education.” 43

Controversies

Email Controversy

In 2016, many of Tanden’s emails to cohort John Podesta were leaked by Wikileaks, an entity believed to be associated with foreign intelligence services.44 In a late 2016 summary of her email correspondence the liberal blog the New Republic said that the contents of those emails demonstrated “a pattern of freezing out those who don’t toe the line, a disturbing predilection for someone who is a kind of gatekeeper for what ideas are acceptable in Democratic politics.”45

Moreover, The New Republic’s report claimed that the emails revealed that Tanden’s work as a surrogate for the Clinton campaign went beyond her appearances on television. The report indicated she was actively working to conserve the Clinton campaign’s political capital, rather than pushing it to spend it on policies that liberals would expect a think tank like CAP to support. 46

Additionally, the language that Tanden used in the emails against people she disagreed with became a point of controversy. The New York Times described Tanden’s emails as “profanity-laced” and fiercely protective of Hillary Clinton.47

In one 2015 email to Podesta, Tanden suggested that the person responsible for allowing Clinton’s State Department correspondence to be conducted over a private email server should be “drawn and quartered.” 48

Anti-Trump Activism

After the 2016 election, Tanden announced that she was committing CAP and CAP Action resources to rapidly and forcefully “resisting” the newly elected president Donald Trump.49

She issued statements opposing a number of President Trump’s policy decisions, opposing Trump administration proposals to construct a barrier on the Mexico-United States border,50 opposing Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare,51 proclaiming that President Trump’s Cabinet are “bad people,”52 and labeling the 2017 tax cut a “tax scam.”53

Incendiary Comments

Tanden has a long history of making profane and controversial comments.

During the 2017 wildfires in southern California, New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells tweeted, “NBC News in LA is reporting that the wildfires are now burning down [News Corporation executive chairman] Rupert Murdoch’s house,” to which Tanden replied, “There’s a God, and she’s unhappy,” describing the fire as an act of “karma.” Tanden later deleted the tweet, saying “it wasn’t funny.”54

In a piece for the Huffington Post in 2016 entitled, “Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve the Support of American Hindus” she questioned an Indian-American businessman’s support for Republican candidate Donald Trump and suggested because of his race, he should not support the candidate of his choosing.55

References

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  2. Thrush, Glenn. “Meet Hillary Clinton’s anger translator.” Politico, August 29, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/neera-tanden-2016-election-227494
  3. O’Donnell, Paul.” Neera Tanden Explains the One Big Difference Between the Democrats’ and the Republicans’ Civil Wars.” Washingtonian Magazine, June 2, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/06/02/neera-tanden-explains-one-big-difference-democrats-republicans-civil-wars/
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  11. Lopez, Beatriz. “STATEMENT: CAP Action’s Neera Tanden Announces Launch of New Campaign to Resist Donald Trump.” Center For American Progress. December 15, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogressaction.org/press/statement/2016/12/15/164906/statement-cap-actions-neera-tanden-announces-launch-of-new-campaign-to-resist-donald-trump/
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  14. Yglesias, Matthew. “Bruenighazi: how a feisty Bernie blogger’s firing explains Democratic politics in 2016.” Vox, May 21, 2016. Accessed December 29, 2017. https://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos
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  19. Neera Tanden official biography, Center for American Progress website. Undated. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/tanden-neera/bio/
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  22. Neera Tanden official biography, Center for American Progress website. Undated. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/tanden-neera/bio/
  23. Berman, Russell. “The Clinton Transition Team Takes Shape.” The Atlantic, August 16, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/the-clinton-transition-team-takes-shape/496034/
  24. Neera Tanden Linkedin Profile. Linkedin.com. Undated. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.linkedin.com/in/neera-tanden-614b9318/
  25. Smith, Ben. “Podesta to step down at CAP.” Politico. October 24, 2011. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.politico.com/story/2011/10/podesta-to-step-down-at-cap-066742
  26. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax: Center for American Progress Action Fund. Pro Publica. 2015. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300192708
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  28. Shephard, Alex and Chang, Clio. “How Neera Tanden Works .” The New Republic. October 28, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://newrepublic.com/article/138212/neera-tanden-works
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  31. “Release: Patrick Gaspard Named President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.” Center for American Progress, May 1, 2023. https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release-patrick-gaspard-named-president-ceo-center-american-progress-ceo-center-american-progress-action-fund/.
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  43. Shear, Michael D. “Biden Names Neera Tanden to Lead the Domestic Policy Council.” The New York Times, May 5, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/us/politics/neera-tanden-biden.html.
  44. Confessore, Nicholas and Eder, Steve. “WikiLeaks Lays Bare a Clinton Insider’s Emphatic Cheers and Jeers.” New York Times, October 29, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/neera-tanden-wikileaks.html?_r=0
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  48. Confessore, Nicholas and Eder, Steve. “WikiLeaks Lays Bare a Clinton Insider’s Emphatic Cheers and Jeers.” New York Times, October 29, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/neera-tanden-wikileaks.html?_r=0
  49. Lopez, Beatriz. “STATEMENT: CAP Action’s Neera Tanden Announces Launch of New Campaign to Resist Donald Trump.” Center For American Progress. December 15, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogressaction.org/press/statement/2016/12/15/164906/statement-cap-actions-neera-tanden-announces-launch-of-new-campaign-to-resist-donald-trump/
  50. Lopez, Beatriz. “Statement: President Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders Declare Open Season on Communities of Color and Make America Less Safe.” Center For American Progress. January 25, 2017. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2017/01/25/297368/statement-president-trumps-immigration-executive-orders-declare-open-season-on-communities-of-color-and-make-america-less-safe/
  51. Kearns, Devon. “STATEMENT: Neera Tanden on Latest Failure of ACA Repeal Effort.” Center For American Progress. September 26, 2017. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement/2017/09/26/439705/statement-neera-tanden-latest-failure-aca-repeal-effort/
  52. “Neera Tanden: Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Are ‘Bad People.’” Youtube.com. December 12, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5W_xoK14w
  53. Preiss, Allison. “STATEMENT: CAP’s Neera Tanden: Congressional GOP Tax Scam One of the Most Immoral, Venal Pieces of Legislation I Have Ever Seen.” Center For American Progress. December 19, 2017. Accessed December 22, 2017. https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement/2017/12/19/444331/statement-caps-neera-tanden-congressional-gop-tax-scam-one-immoral-venal-pieces-legislation/
  54. Lim, Naomi. “Clinton and Obama campaign alum Neera Tanden on Rupert Murdoch’s home burning down: ‘There’s a God. And she’s unhappy.’” Washington Examiner, December 6, 2017. Accessed December 22, 2017. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-and-obama-campaign-alum-neera-tanden-on-rupert-murdochs-home-burning-down-theres-a-god-and-shes-unhappy/article/2642725
  55. Tanden, Neera. “Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve The Support Of American Hindus.” The Huffington Post, September 22, 2016. Accessed December 22, 2017.   https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-doesnt-deserve-the-support-of-american-hindus_us_57e3f4a9e4b0e28b2b529232
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