Committees scrap votes on Neera Tanden

摘要

Two Senate committees abruptly postponed votes on Neera Tanden — the president's pick to lead the White House budget office — as her outlook to confirmation remains precarious. Tanden's fate appeared doomed Friday when influential moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) came out against her nomination, reasoning that her past partisan rhetoric would have a "toxic and detrimental impact."