NEW: At least 56 alumni of the Center for American Progress are working inside the White House & agencies across the US government, per a @thisisinsider analysis of administration announcements & career networking sites. by @rbravender & @leonardkl ($) businessinsider.com/biden-staff-ce…
They're not just any government jobs, either: CAP alumni fill some of the most important positions in Washington. Among them are President Joe Biden's new secretary of Veterans Affairs, the top White House economic policy advisor, and the chief of staff at the Pentagon.
Even Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, served on the board of the think tank's political arm. And CAP's most visible member, President & CEO Neera Tanden, would be serving as WH budget director, but the admin pulled her nomination in the face of opposition from Senate Rs.
"It's been very important for us to have an intellectual gathering place off the Hill that we know is continuously trying to be creative about policy," Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, told @thisisinsider this week.
When Democrats are out of power in Washington, CAP is "a great place to go to keep hope alive," Kaine added.
Republicans aren't as thrilled to see former CAP staffers — many of whom served under the Obama administration — landing back in Washington's power corridors.
"It reinforces that we've got probably the most liberal regime in the White House that we've had in a long time, if ever," said Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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