The previously scheduled Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to vote on Neera Tanden's nomination to be OMB Director has been postponed, a possible indication that her nomination may be being pulled, @kristin__wilson and @tedbarrettcnn report.
2/ Reports @ryanobles: The committee is specifically concerned with how @SenatorSinema will vote and did not want to risk taking the vote on Tanden without knowing how she planned to vote, a person familiar with internal committee deliberations tells CNN.
3/ If Sinema, who sits on the committee, is opposed to the nomination then it is essentially dead. If she’s a yes, then the focus shifts to Murkowski when it comes to floor, Nobles adds.
4/ One GOP Senator told me that Tanden’s “excessive partisanship seemed likely to continue given that she placed her close friend Topher Spiro in a non-confirmable slot at OMB....That made it seem like she was setting up OMB to be a political operation....
5/ “... Topher has an impressive resume and may be a talented policy person. But he was a troll, so her apologies ring hollow.”
6/ WH didn’t respond when I asked for comment but here’s @PressSec Psaki this morning:
https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1364565618872229890
A senior aide on the Senate Budget Committee tells CNN’s @ryanobles that today’s hearing that was scheduled to take up the Neera Tanden nomination has been postponed. Chairman @BernieSanders personally informed Tanden on the phone about postponement.
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