Neera Tanden was a health advisor in the administration of former President Barack Obama. (Archive)
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Center for American Progress executive director Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget, and economist Cecilia Rouse, as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sunday.
Biden, a Democrat, also plans to elect Wally Adeyemo, a senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration, to serve as Janet Yellen’s top deputy at the Treasury Department, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with The issue.
Economists Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey will be nominated to serve as members of the Council of Economic Advisers, the report added.
A representative for Biden’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tanden, Rouse, Adeyemo, Bernstein and Boushey could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday.
Before taking the reins of the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank, Tanden was a health adviser in the administration of former President Barack Obama. She was also an advisor to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Rouse, a labor economist at Princeton University whose research has focused on the economics of education, previously served as a member of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Adeyemo was a senior White House national security adviser for the international economy during the Obama administration, as well as one of the top advisers to former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. He is currently president of the Obama Foundation
Bernstein, one of Biden’s closest aides, served as his top economic adviser while Biden, then vice president, and Obama fought to lift America out of the Great Recession.
He was tasked with calculating and explaining how many jobs the Obama administration’s take-back act saved in 2009, and he was expected to play an equally prominent role in a Biden administration.
Boushey is known for his research that focuses on how inequality can hamper economic growth. The CEO and co-founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a group of forward-thinking economic experts, Boushey has been working with Biden’s team as an unofficial economic adviser.
Like Obama did in 2009, Biden will inherit a struggling economy facing serious short-term challenges.
Nearly 14 million Americans, many of whom used to work in the restaurant and hospitality industries, are receiving unemployment benefits that expire on December 26, and the continued rise of the coronavirus means it is unknown when they might be able to go back to work.
Biden’s economic agenda is likely to focus on getting the country through the coronavirus crisis, both as a health issue and as an economic one. Much will depend on the approval of a pandemic aid package and the distribution of a vaccine that is expected in early 2021.
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