Politics

摘要

Barack Obama admitted that he "screwed up" in nominating Tom Daschle for health secretary. Mr Daschle withdrew his name after it emerged that he had failed to keep his taxes in proper order and had made late payments. His departure is a blow for the new administration's health policy; Mr Daschle, a former senator, was to have overseen negotiations with Congress over reforming the health system.rnThe Democrats were also embarrassed when Nancy Killefer said she would no longer seek the job of the federal government's first "performance tsar". She had failed to pay taxes on a domestic employee and is the third of Mr Obama's nominees to have problems with the tax code.